Prehabilitation: Principles & Practice for Supporting Patients to Get Fit for Surgery/Treatment

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.

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