UK NHS Prehabilitation Services Survey for Cancer Surgery Patients

A 2026 survey of UK National Health Service (NHS) organizations providing cancer surgery services, with responses from 112 organizations. The dataset, created by Hilary Stewart, details the availability and characteristics of prehabilitation services, including staffing, funding, and measures to address access inequalities.

Use Cases

• Mapping the availability of prehabilitation services across NHS organizations based on survey responses.
• Analyzing staffing composition (e.g., physiotherapist and dietitian involvement) in existing services.
• Studying measures to address access inequities, such as support for patients with internet barriers.
• Investigating the relationship between service characteristics and permanent funding status.

Strengths

• Survey achieved a 74% response rate from 152 contacted NHS organizations.
• Includes detailed responses from 51 prehabilitation services, providing specific counts for professions and interventions.
• Explicitly focuses on addressing accessibility and inequality issues within service provision.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and institutional bias inherent to the UK NHS context.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Survey based on the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) and equity criteria.

Time Range

Survey conducted circa 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 17:30:51; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (National Health Service organizations).