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The IIOP Cancer Care Hub was recently launched in association with the National Cancer Control Programme, as a resource for pharmacists. This article provides an overview of the Hub.
The National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) are delighted to have collaborated with the IIOP to develop the IIOP Cancer Care Hub, which is intended to be a resource for all pharmacists, and one that is hoped will be especially useful to community pharmacists.
We know that the pharmacist’s role, in particular the community pharmacist, is evolving due to increasing numbers of patients on systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) who receive their supportive care medicines from their community pharmacist, and also due to the increased use of oral anti-cancer medicines, which are largely dispensed in the community. We also know from research carried out by Red C Research and Marketing in May 2023 that community pharmacists would welcome increased educational support on the topic of cancer.
The IIOP Cancer Care Hub has been designed to be an easily accessible single location where pharmacists can find information resources relating to cancer care.
The content within the IIOP Cancer Care Hub has been organised into six main pillars which reflect the cancer care continuum, from prevention and detection, through to treatment and management of side effects, and then on to palliative care and survivorship. Within each pillar, resources have been organised into three categories:
This resource, which we hope pharmacists will find useful, is the foundation for further exciting work whereby we are intending to acknowledge pharmacists’ cancer care knowledge by assigning them as Cancer Care Champions.  More information on this will follow but in the meantime, we hope that this resource will provide pharmacists with some valuable sources of information.
The IIOP Cancer Care Hub can be found at iiop.ie/content/cancer-care-hub.
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