Events for health professionals

Webinar: Evidence and Outcomes – Implementing Nurse-Led Survivorship Models

Tuesday 9 September 2025 | 7:00 – 8:30pm (AEST)

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The Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre (ACSC) invites registrations for this virtual Collaborative Webinar.

This session will examine evidence behind nurse-led and nurse-enabled survivorship care models, and their role in addressing health system pressures. You will gain practical insights into implementing integrated, evidence-based approaches to survivorship care, including nationally defined survivorship nursing capabilities, clinic design guidance, and current research findings. Perfect for multidisciplinary cancer care teams—including cancer service executives, medical oncologists, nurses and allied health specialists looking to embed sustainable, outcomes-focused survivorship care.

To get the most from this session, we recommend participants to watch Professor Raymond Chan’s 20-minute presentation before attending.

Learning objectives:

  1. Understand the roles and capabilities of cancer nurses in delivering evidence-based survivorship care.
  2. Explore practical, evidence-informed approaches to designing and implementing nurse-led survivorship models.
  3. Examine the outcomes and value of nurse-led survivorship models from consumer, nursing, medical and system-level perspectives.
  4. Gain insights from medical oncologist and consumer experiences of nurse-led survivorship models.
  5. Identify strategies to enhance multidisciplinary collaboration, consumer engagement and sustainability of nurse-led survivorship models.

Speakers:

  • Professor Catherine Paterson, Professor of Cancer Nursing, Flinders University and the Central Adelaide Health Network
  • Associate Professor Gemma McErlean, University of Wollongong and Director of the Centre for Research in Nursing and Health, St George Hospital
  • Associate Professor Mahesh Iddawela, Medical Oncologist, Peninsula and Alfred Health
  • Meg Rynderman OAM, consumer advocate
  • Tracey Mander, Operations & Projects Lead, ACSC
  • Nella Combe, Project Manager - Engagement, ACSC

This event is presented in collaboration with Cancer Council New South Wales, Clinical Oncology Society of Australia and the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia.

For current ACSC initiatives supporting professional development in survivorship education, visit our Survivorship education webpage.

Register now