In 2020, the RCoA partnered with the National Institute for Health and Care Research’s Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration and with Macmillan Cancer Support to produce guidelines on prehabilitation: ‘Principles and guidance for prehabilitation within the management and support of people with cancer’. 

One of the actions set out in the guidance was to ‘Develop a “Community of Practice” resource to provide contacts of local/regional sites and share expertise and learning from established prehabilitation programmes’.

The Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), founded by the RCoA is dedicated to the promotion, advancement and development of perioperative care. Naturally, CPOC has a vested interest in prehabilitation and therefore set about considering how this action might be best delivered in conjunction with Macmillan Cancer Support.