Health researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have secured funding for plans to develop a cancer rehabilitation programme for patients and survivors living in Sheffield.
The project is being led by the University’s Centre for Sport and Exercise Science (CSES) and Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CHSCR) and is in collaboration withpartners from the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) in Sheffield, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity.
The team of researchers, clinicians and local service providers have been awarded £34,000 by Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity to develop an exercise and cancer rehabilitation programme in the city that will seek to use exercise to benefit the health of those who have suffered or are suffering from cancer.
Steps will now be taken to establish what measures need to be in place in the city to implement such a programme.
Crucially, the funding will also be used to train up several exercise and cancer rehabilitation instructors who will be based in various locations across the city and will be able to offer patients and survivors an exercise screening consultation and a personalised exercise prescription to support their recovery.
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