This toolkit aims to support the improvement of care and services for people with cancer by encouraging a standardised approach to screening, assessment, delivery of interventions (universal, targeted and specialist support), and measurement of outcomes. This work raises the profile of a wide variety of roles that are, and have, the potential to be involved in providing prehabilitation and rehabilitation care and support for people with cancer by informing different stakeholders about what good prehabilitation and rehabilitation looks like.
Online toolkit demonstration (26 minutes)
Service Improvement Tool
This service improvement tool will support health and care staff who are designing, developing and delivering prehabilitation and rehabilitation for people with cancer. This includes Cancer Alliances, Integrated Care Boards, cancer care teams, primary care teams, healthcare provider organisations, generic community rehabilitation services, commissioners, third sector organisations and education and research institutions.
In order to share, learn and work together, it is worth checking whether prehabilitation services are being delivered, or are being set up, across different teams in the organisations in which you work, e.g. perioperative medicine teams, cancer clinical teams, general surgery.
We recommend downloading a PDF copy of the questions to plan and coordinate your responses. Completed service improvement tools will be seen by the WCA team and used to measure progress and status of prehabilitation/rehabilitation across Wessex.
Service User Feedback
To compliment the service improvement tool, we have developed a service user feedback survey to support your service to gain an understanding of how the five key principles of good prehabilitation and rehabilitation are delivered to service users. We recommend downloading a copy of the questions to provide to your service users.
This work is aligned with ongoing work across the UK into prehabilitation and rehabilitation in cancer, in particular the planned update of the prehabilitation guidance initially published in 2019 by Macmillan Cancer Support, the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the National Institute for Health Research Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration.