Welsh cancer charity Tenovus Cancer Care and iManageCancer explore new partnership

Partnerships are the backbone of many a successful venture, and can make each more than the sum of their parts.

In iManageCancer, we felt this was no different. To really make the best of our planned technology, we need to partner with groups representing our ‘end-users’, namely organisations catering to the types of people at whom our services are aimed. In our case this will be cancer patients, their families, and the healthcare professionals looking after them.

With this in mind, we met with the well-known and loved Welsh cancer charity Tenovus Cancer Care on a brisk but bright day in early February, at Putteridge Bury near Luton, an attractive replica of the Prime Minister’s country home ‘Chequers’. This event was all part of the project’s second main meeting hosted by partner University of Bedfordshire.

Tenovus Cancer Care and iManageCancer discussed nascent plans to join forces in testing out the first version of the new patient empowerment platform following its official roll-out in October 2016, by holding a stakeholder workshop involving discerning patients, counsellors and nurses.

By working together like this, the two can access a wide range of real-world end-users to advise us how to best make our online tools and services, such as the planned personal health information recommender and serious games, really fit patient’s needs as well as being great to look at and use.

We hope to run this workshop in early 2017. Look out for news about this on the site, on Twitter (@ecancer) or sign up to our newsletter if you haven’t already.