Implementation of Cancer Prehabilitation in Wales

Today, (15th October 2025) the Allied Health Professional workforce from across Wales will come together at an all-Wales symposium to celebrate the progress being made around cancer prehabilitation services in Wales. Prehabilitation is now embedded in all National Optimal Pathways (NOPs). Despite this, significant inequities persist in access to, referrals to, and uptake of prehabilitation across NHS Wales.  

“Currently, prehabilitation services are not routinely available to everyone who could benefit and it is time to ensure that effort is made to reduce the variation in access. Patients will benefit and ultimately it will benefit the NHS through quicker discharge, more tolerated treatments and ultimately cost savings!”

 

“I do hope that NHS leaders who attend this event today will come away and look to embed cancer prehabilitation services across their health boards in a systematic and equitable way, so that patients, no matter what type of cancer they have and no matter where they live – will be able to benefit from this important part of the treatment pathway”

Lowri Griffiths, Chair, Wales Cancer Alliance