GP Community of Practice

Episode 41 – We are Undefeatable campaign

28 January 2025 | 58 minutes 57 seconds

In this webinar, we are joined by Peter Dutton, Activation Manager, We Are Undefeatable and Emma Hutchins, Physical Activity and Health Influencing Manager from The Richmond Group of Charities.

The first part of the webinar shares insights from We Are Undefeatable’s public consultation, which heard from over 2,200 people with long-term conditions and those who support them including health professionals about the motivations, barriers and enablers to being physically active. As well as a summary of the findings, Emma and Peter will focus in on responses from health professionals and from respondents who reported living with cancer to better understand specific issues, including a difference in perceptions about what the barriers are between professionals and patients.

The second part will translate these insights into context for prehabilitation and rehabiltation and show how We Are Undefeatable can be a useful resource for professionals and cancer patients. Peter and Emma will share some of the stories from their fantastic We Are Undefeatable cast who have experienced cancer and some practical tools and resources health professionals can use.

Learn more about the We are Undefeatable campaign.

Episode 40 – ENRICH Project

26 November 2024 | 30 minutes 20 seconds

In this webinar, we are joined by Joanna Injore, Dietetic Clinical Fellow at Macmillan Cancer Support.

Joanna will share the preliminary results of the ENRICH Project (Engaging Nutrition Resources for Inclusive Cancer Health) which aims to explore cancer nutrition/diet resources for people from ethnic minority communities.

The first stage of this work was to gather insights on nutrition and diet information available for people from diverse communities and from healthcare professionals providing support and advice.

Joanna discusses the project and shares some of the results from the professional survey.

Episode 39 – CAN-EMPOWER

28 October 2024 | 56 minutes

In this webinar, we are joined by Dan Aze, Lynn Calman and David Wright. Daniel, Lynn and David will provide an overview of their project, CAN-EMPOWER.

The aim of this project was to develop a freely available, evidence-based digital resource to enhance confidence to manage psychological problems/well-being for people living with and beyond cancer.

In the webinar Lynn and David will discuss the development of the resource informed by the Person Based Approach. This approach is an iterative set of methods to develop interventions that people will find easy to use and engaging, by embedding input from people likely to use the resource throughout all of the research. People with lived experience of cancer and a range of health professionals were involved in the development..

They will discuss the two work packages involved in developing the intervention and present the completed intervention, underpinning evidence and some ideas for implementation. After they presentation they look forward to a discussion about how webinar attendees think this will align with current practice and suggestions for implementation.

Read the PDF slides of this episode about the development of the CAN-POWER project.

24th September 2024 | Runtime 58 minutes 53 seconds

In this webinar, we are joined by Anthony Crozier, Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Jack Jones, Senior Clinical Exercise Psychologist and Beatrice Hamilton, PI for Plymouth Trust for the STAMINA Trail. Beatrice will be joined by two participants in the trial.

Anthony will provide an overview of the Clinical Exercise Physiologist Role and the pathway to registration as a healthcare professional.

Jack will discuss the benefits Clinical Exercise Physiologist’s can bring to a prehab service. In addition, the challenges of a real-world implementation of Prehabilitation and principles of Exercise Prescription during Prehabilitation.

Beatrice and the participants will share their reflections on taking part in the STAMINA trail including a video made by the participants. Beatrice will also share her reflections on being a nurse PI.

View Anthony Crozier's presentation slides (PDF) and Jack Jones presentation slides (PDF).

30th July 2024 | 101 minutes and 22 seconds

In this webinar, we are joined by Sasha Karakusevic from the NHS Horizons team who will discuss the work that Sport England are doing on behalf of Department of Culture Media and their Uniting the Movement strategy.

We are also joined by two major prehabilitation projects. Denny Levitt and Rebecca Livingston will be highlighting their innovative approaches and successes in the digital prehabilitation space. Denny will discuss digital enablement for prehabilitation and Rebecca will discuss iPREPWELL - co-designing and implementing a digital prehabilitation platform.

25th June 2024 | 51 minutes and 5 seconds

Prehabilitation has much to offer people who are preparing for cancer surgery, but there are wide differences in how it is implemented across the UK, and because engaging in prehabilitation requires time, effort and sometimes money, it may benefit some people more than others. The PARITY study seeks to better understand how prehabilitation for cancer surgery interacts with health inequalities. In this webinar, Cliff Shelton, Chief Investigator of the study, will provide an update on what PARITY has found out so far, and the plans for the final stage of the project.

28 May 2024 | 42 minutes and 7 seconds

In this webinar, we are joined by Adrienne Lee, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Anaesthetist in Training. Adrienne discusses her project which aims to address the underlying differential access issues for patients with learning disability while waiting for medical or surgical procedures and support them whilst on the waiting list.

Read the PDF slides of this episode about reducing inequitable delays for patients with learning disability

30 April 2024 | 53 minutes

In this webinar, we are joined by Anthony Cunliffe, Macmillan’s Lead Medical Adviser and GP and Samantha Tordesillas, Programme Manager for Personalised Care, South East London Cancer Alliance.

Anthony discusses the vital role that Primary Care can play in prehabilitation and Sam discusses the new planning guidance for English Cancer Alliances that relates to prehabilitation and work her alliance has been doing around it.

Read the PDF slides of this episode about prehabiltation in primary care.