Prehabilitation resources for healthcare professionals

We have developed our principles and guidance for prehabilitation with the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the National Institute for Health Research Cancer, and Nutrition Collaboration.

The principles and guidance will help you to:

• advance cancer care provision
• include prehabilitation in the cancer pathway.
• inform service provision and development
• inform and support a change policy.

Following the first joint NHSE and Macmillan Prehabilitation Summit, we are delighted to share the videos of the sessions from the day. We hope you are able to use these to refresh your knowledge and raise awareness with colleagues about the importance of prehabilitation and the progress being made in this area.

Watch: Welcome and Summit Introduction 

Other videos from the summit

• Overview and background to prehab
• Planned Guidance
• The Parity study - What is happening across the UK
• Evidence for non surgical and surgical prehabilitation
• Learning from England
• Learning from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
• Patient Representatives Panel
• The impact of prehabilitation
• Maximising opportunities and levers
• Discussion feedback
• Concluding remarks

We want everyone living with cancer to get the support and inspiration they need to be physically active, in a way that's right for them.

Physical activity can help people living with cancer:

• manage their symptoms
• improve their quality of life and clinical outcomes
• prevent treatment side effects
• reduce the risk of recurrence.

You can learn more about these benefits in our physical activity guidance. We have separate physical activity guidance for patients with metastatic bone disease.

We also have a service implementation guide and sports toolkit to help professionals develop or signpost patients to a physical activity service.

Please find below links to additional information around physical activity and exercise developed by the South East London Cancer Alliance for patients and those working with people with cancer.

• ‌Physical activity and exercise: South East London Cancer Alliance 
• Top tips on physical activity and cancer: South East London Cancer Alliance 

The Centre for Perioperative care have developed patient resources to help people prepare for surgery or treatment. These highlight the importance of shared decision making when it comes to your treatment and achieving the best outcomes.

We've created our 10 top tips series to help primary care professionals support patients at every stage of the cancer pathway. The tips are designed to showcase best practice and offer practical advice for your role.

We have tips for prehabilitation, which include:

• Managing fatigue
• Prehabilitation
• Social prescribing
• Virtual consultations.

View all top tips

Stay up to date with the latest developments in cancer care, with expert news, opinion and analysis. You'll also find blogs about our professionals and the fantastic work they do.

Read our latest blogs for healthcare professionals.

Read the Macmillan Northern Ireland Prehab Programme Evaluation interim evaluation

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