In her role Emma has had a very busy first year and has already forged good relationships and regular contact with Cancer Delivery and Cancer community groups also reaching out to deprived communities and groups.

Over the past year Emma has supported, educated and influenced the primary care teams, health professionals and local health systems throughout the 13 PCNs presenting at PCN meetings as well as providing one-to- one sessions with practice staff to to upskill staff members and identify areas for improvements to increase data to reach targets.

The current figures for the Durham Dales locality combined show an overall increase in uptake figure from the previous year of 3%.

Emma has been key in identifying and supporting Cancer Champion/Cancer Care Coordinator roles in primary care designing and delivering bespoke training for all practice staff. On reflection of this Emma has worked with NCA to design regional cancer care champion training for all PCNS in the north east to follow.

For DDHF specifically we have worked with Emma and the practices to establish and implement the Early Diagnosis Cancer Action Plans for the 3 PCNs to ensure these met the requirements of the DES and the Northern Cancer Alliance work.

Emma's work links closely with the Social Prescribers, Health and Wellbeing Coaches and Care Coordinators attending their team meetings and within DDHF, as her employers, is linked intrinsically with our Social and Wellbeing teams working on targeting specific cohorts and workstreams.