This piece covers the PREP-WELL project which is a community based prehabilitation program in South Tees, in the North of England:

“We established the following guiding principles; we wanted to provide patient centered care under one roof with facilitated self management; we wanted to work as a cross sector collaborative, by that I mean primary care, secondary care and public health; all working together to try and improve on the fragmented service provision and sign work that we often see in our health care services; we wanted to provide a community based facility for patients; and I’ll come to the reasons for this”.

See the PREP-WELL team here: https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/prepwell-project/meet-the-prepwell-team/

The links mentioned in the talk are here:

Home exercises: https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/prepwell-project/home-exercises/

Nutrition: https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/prepwell-project/nutrition/

Pdf download: https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/bmjqir/9/1/e000898.full.pdf

We’ve been following the groundbreaking success of the PREP-WELL project for some time now here on TopMedTalk, why not check out this piece here, the first part in our most recent “P.O.E.T – Perioperative Enhancement Teams” series; https://www.topmedtalk.com/poet-2-01-the-uks-prepwell-initiative/

This piece was originally part of EBPOM 2020 – Live from London, our groundbreaking virtual conference; find out more about Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) here: www.ebpom.org

Presented by Gerard Danjoux, consultant in Anaesthesia and Sleep Medicine at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.