Speaker
Description
There is a strengthening mandate from the literature, clinical bodies’, clinician experience and the patient voice adding weight to the argument that physical activity should be a standard component of cancer care. What is less clear is how this is implementable in over stretched clinical settings where priorities are significantly influenced by funding and exercise healthcare professionals do not always have access to key decision makers.
At the Royal Marsden we are, to our knowledge, the first specialist cancer hospital who is trying a strategic approach to achieving this aim. The ‘Physical Activity Strategy’ was launched initially in 2019, but due to Covid-19 it was updated and re-launched in 2023. It's ambition is to achieve an 'Active Marsden' with work focused around four themes: workforce, digital, partnerships and active environments.
This poster outlines the steps taken to co-create a Physical Activity Strategy endorsed by the Trust’s senior leadership and incorporated into the Trust’s overarching Strategy.
• It will outline how we are attempting to measure change to the culture around physical activity
• It will explain how stakeholders are being utilised to ensure this continues to be a co-developed piece of work
• It will showcase how we are attempting to reduce the health inequalities often linked to exercise service provision with targeted advocacy
• Lastly it will identify the key challenges we have faced in trying to embed a strategic approach to physical activity within a tertiary centre and make suggestions to help others considering a similar approach
Keywords
Physical activity, strategy, culture
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