Short Programmes
Our free programmes are aimed at all health professionals working in prostate cancer care.
This has been such a brilliant programme covering areas that NHS training doesn’t cover.
Coming in 2027
The first of our leadership development short programmes for 2027 will be themed on Active Surveillance.
This programme will be focused primarily on leadership, communication and resilience, with additional practical content around best practice for implementing Active Surveillance, and insights from experts in this area.
Recruitment opens in November 2026.
What is a short programme?
Our short programmes are aimed at clinicians working across the UK who want to drive shorter (20 week) change improvement projects in their organisation. Throughout these 20 weeks, you'll be taught how to implement change during challenging professional surroundings, how to collaborate effectively with your colleagues and how to make your changes sustainable.
After delivering successful programmes looking purely at leadership and change management, we've begun to identify and support specific areas of the pathway through targeted improvement programmes such as sexual wellbeing, and exercise oncology.
You'll attend two virtual modules (9am-12pm) and two modules at one residential stay (day 1 module 3, overnight stay, day 2 module 4) over the course of a short programme, completing a short survey about your project and your experience.
Our programmes are aimed at any health professional working along the prostate cancer pathway. No leadership experience is necessary!
Our 2025/2026 courses
Across 2025/2026, we delivered three of our short programmes. These programmes were attended by clinicians from across the UK and have directly impacted over 3,500 men, whilst creating driven leaders in prostate cancer care.
Faster Diagnosis Standards
Focus on diagnostic pathways
Included a workshop with HCPs who have successfully implemented pathway projects in their Trusts.
Equality in Prostate Cancer Care
Supporting projects looking to close inequities and inequalities existing in prostate cancer care
Included sessions on Black health equity, refugee and asylum seeker barriers to healthcare, and equality through real-world evidence.
Exercise Oncology
Focus on implementing exercise programmes into prostate cancer care
Included sessions with experts in cancer rehabilitation, exercise for those with long-term health conditions, and the perspective of those with lived experience of exercising with prostate cancer.
Since 2019, a variety of short programmes have developed over 2250 clinicians; impacting around 75,000 patients, their families and numerous Trusts all over the UK.
You can shine with any project if you apply the right tools each step of the way and spend some time trying to orientate yourself and re-focus around any challenges.
If you'd like to discuss our short programmes, please contact the Improvement Programmes Team.
Our Prostate Cancer UK Improvement Programmes are partly funded by grants from Astellas Pharma Ltd, Bayer UK and Roche Products Ltd. However, none of these organisations have any influence over the educational content of the programmes.
