Prehabilitation and rehabilitation webinar series
If you work in or are interested in prehabilitation and rehabilitation, join or watch our webinar series where you can hear from expert speakers about related topics.
About the webinars
The prehabilitation and rehabilitation webinars are brought to you by The Prehabilitation Special Interest Group. This group is formed by a collaboration between Macmillan's Centre of Clinical Expertise, the Centre for Perioperative Care and the Wessex Cancer Alliance.
The aim of these events is to bring people together with a special interest in prehabilitation and rehabilitation to:
- Share best practice.
- Showcase examples of services from across UK.
- Share the latest research and policy developments.
- Generate discussion and debate.
How to join future sessions
The webinars will be hosted on the last Tuesday of every month at 13:00 to 14:00. To join future sessions please email CancerPrehabilitation@macmillan.org.uk and we will add you to the mailing list. For anyone not able to join on the day, recordings of the sessions will be shared here at the beginning of the following month.
Future webinar dates
- December 2024 - no webinar
2025
- 28 January - We are Undefeatable campaign
- 25 February - Primary Care - 4 nations
- 25 March - CARE trial results
- 29 April - Update on PARITY study and socialisation plan for the revised prehabilitation guidance
- 27 May - WesFIT presentation.
- 24 June - guest speaker and topic to be confirmed
- 29 July - guest speaker and topic to be confirmed
- August - no webinar
- 30 September - guest speaker and topic to be confirmed
- 28 October - guest speaker and topic to be confirmed
- 25 November - guest speaker and topic to be confirmed
- December - no webinar.
Other ways to get involved
We host an online special interest group (SIG) as part of the Health Foundation's Q Community. To join the Prehabilitation Special Interest Group you can sign up as a guest to explore the platform or apply to become a Q member.
The SIG aims to bring together a range of healthcare professionals from various specialties within the health service to exchange expertise, knowledge, and experience of working in prehabilitation services.
Booklets and resources
Webinar episodes
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.
Episode 38 - Clinical Exercise
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).
Episode 37 - Digital prehabilitation
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.
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Episode 36; The PARITY Study - An Update
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.
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Episode 35; Reducing Inequitable Delays for Patients with Learning Disability
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
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Episode 34 - Prehabilitation in Primary Care and the English Cancer Alliance Planning Guidance 2024
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.
Webinar archive episodes 34 to 36
Webinar archive episodes 1 to 33
The prehabilitation and rehabilitation webinar series began as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitated and organised by Fran Williams and the Wessex Cancer Alliance. You can watch all of these episodes on the Wessex Cancer Alliance website.