Kent & Medway Prehab aims to get patients to their optimal health before treatment, helping them cope with the challenges of their treatment as well as to recover faster.
In the same way that rehabilitation helps people recover following an illness or injury, Kent & Medway Prehab will assist you in helping your patients build their strength and fitness before treatment.
This means patient recovery time is often shorter, and they are able to return to the quality of life they enjoyed before their treatment sooner.
100% of the attendees find our model inclusive, relevant and accessible.
Kent & Medway Prehab is lucky enough to have such a depth of expertise in their team, with members specialising in triage, referral, psychological support and exercise delivery.
In developing the service we were not only drawing on the expertise of our multi disciplined team, our solutions pivoted and revolved around an essential team of doctors, specialist cancer nurses, psychologists, counsellors, physiologists, students and most importantly, the patients themselves.
Doctors were involved with designing a prehabilitation pathway for eligible patients and recruiting them to the prehab service. Doctors were also responsible for recruiting physiologists and nurses to help deliver the programme.
As a planned expansion of Kent & Medway Prehab, in January 2020 we opened satellite centres into the communities of Strood, Lordswood and Rainham. Our aim is to expand into more community-based centres in Kent, Surrey and Sussex to make Prehab more accessible, flexible and part of integrated care systems, helping more eligible patients build their strength and fitness before treatment.
The Sports Minister, Tracey Crouch, has been a strong supporter of Medway Prehab since its inception. She has visited the site, met the patients who have used the service and encouraged the team to develop their vision to provide an integrated, personalised and effective service for all of our local community.
