Emily Dore-Smith
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Yeah, I'd agree.
I think as a trust that we work in, we're sort of...
offering one of the one of the largest services in the country there's a um various um other hospitals offering um sort of different rehabilitation services but i think we really like to retain the sort of face-to-face one-to-one input alongside you know how the service is going to have to move to cope with unfortunately more numbers as people come through often just now on curative pathways of treatment but those perhaps that may be on more palliative pathways of treatment we want to
be able to offer them our support and kind of expertise to optimize them as best as they can through their sort of treatment journey as well but you're right it's very much more a recent thing that the rehab and rehabilitation is very well known in you know many other specialities orthopedics and recovering from things sort of neurological events like strokes but i think
Thinking in cancer care, I think it is definitely a newer concept to patients and to educate people what that means and what they can do, as Andy said, to sort of empower themselves and take control at a time which very much feels like is out of their control and the sort of uncertainty that surrounds that.
the prehab teams can look quite different, again, depending on where you work in a kind of hospital setting that we're in, you know, a large trust that Bart's is, and kind of a big locality that we cover as well, whereas other services that may be more kind of community based, again, their sort of makeup of their team might look a bit different.
But for ourselves, we've got four exercise physiologists, Duncan's our senior exercise physiologist, we've got Andy as our dietitian, we've got Lucy, our occupational
therapist and then myself as the physiotherapist and I think although we sort of work obviously very closely with one another our roles have got those specifics to them so Andy obviously very much supports from a nutritional basis and patients that may have lost weight or are struggling to eat through various reasons she can really help sort of
get that early intervention prior to them going into hospital.
I tend to see some of the post-operative patients, for example, your breast patients that may be recovering post-surgery, optimising them for their radiotherapy and any other treatment they may have upcoming.
Lucy, our occupational therapist, she
kind of supports people managing fatigue, which is huge in the cancer population.
About 70% of people will experience, you know, sort of higher levels of fatigue.
And also from a mental well-being point of view, she can give sort of strategies, support, onward referrals to psychology as well, if that's necessary.
And then our exercise physiologist, Duncan, you're probably better at kind of giving an overview of you guys.
Yeah, I think we work quite hard at that.
As I said, previously, Barts is a big site.
There's lots of medical surgical teams across the five different hospitals.
So I think having that good relations with consultants and the CNSs that support those teams, we're in sort of regular contact.
And as I said, the clinical nurse specialists are key and are sort of real allies in terms of referring into the service.
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