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This conference focuses on Prehabilitation – Principles and Practice and offers a comprehensive and practical guide to delivering an effective prehabilitation programme, ensuring patients are fit and optimised for surgery. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the latest trends, evidence-based practices, and strategies to optimise patient outcomes within the NHS. The conference will look at preoperative optimisation of patients’ fitness and wellbeing through exercise, nutrition and psychological support, integrating prehabilitation into the care pathway, the relationship between prehabilitation and sleep, as well as behaviour change, and also how to measure the outcomes of prehabilitation. Throughout the day, there will be interactive sessions, small breakout groups, and collaborative exercises, fostering a dynamic learning experience.
“You wouldn’t run a marathon without undertaking any training and prehabilitation aims to optimise a person’s health and wellbeing to help maximise their resilience to treatment throughout their journey.”
Dr Fran Woodard, Executive Director, Policy and Impact, Macmillan Cancer Support
“The importance of preparation ‘prehabilitation’ and active recovery pathways in cancer are being increasingly recognised by cancer patients and healthcare providers around the world. The elements of physical activity , nutritional management and psychological support appear core to improving patients’ outcomes and quality of life…It is important to emphasise to your patient the benefits of preparing themselves before the treatment starts, by increasing exercise, optimising their nutrition and taking care of their mental health."
Prehab4Cancer Greater Manchester 2024
“Patients who are unfit or have co-morbidities that impact on their day-to-day living are at higher risk of complications and mortality from surgery. Complications increase length of hospital stay and health resource use in both primary and secondary care, and are associated with reduced long-term survival and quality of life.”
NHS England
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to deliver effective prehabilitation programmes
Reflect on a patient lived experience
Emulate outstanding practice in implementing a prehabilitation programme
Learn first hand from case studies including prehabilitation for surgery, and prehabilitation for cancer treatment
Reflect on national developments and learning
Improve the way we support patients to prepare themselves, physically and emotionally for surgery
Develop your skills in Behaviour Change and Motivational Interviewing
Embed virtual prehabilitation into your pre treatment patient pathway
Apply interactive case studies to enhance practical understanding prehabilitation strategies
Understand how you can improve emotional and psychological support for patients
Explore the role of prehabilitation in older people
Work with patients to improve nutrition
Learn how to effectively measure the outcomes of prehabilitation
Ensure you are up to date with the latest evidence
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
100% of delegates at the last event on this subject would recommend this virtual event to a colleague and all delegates who completed the evaluation stated that attending the conference would ultimately have a positive impact on patient experience and outcomes.
