Training Courses

PRosPer

The ‘Prehabilitation, rehabilitation and personalised care programme’ (PRosPer) provides e-learning on supporting people with cancer in personalised care and support planning, prehabilitation and rehabilitation. It also covers managing the consequences of cancer and its treatment, workforce development and service redesign. The course is open to anyone working in the NHS or who has an OpenAthens account. For more information visit https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/prosper/

Perioperative Medicine in Action

This free online four-week course (3 hours learning per week) will help you learn about perioperative medicine: what it is, why it matters and how to improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. Too many patients die or suffer prolonged complications following surgery. Perioperative medicine is an emerging multidisciplinary specialty that aims to significantly improve the care of high-risk surgical patients. The course is aimed at medical and allied health professionals. It emphasises that enhanced care and improved outcomes depend on a multi-disciplinary team working together with a common goal. It’ll help you understand your role within the perioperative pathway and give you ideas for simple changes you can make within your own workplace to improve patient care. For more information visit: Perioperative Medicine in Action | Short courses – UCL – University College London

Events

National Prehabilitation Event – March 19th 2026

On Thursday 19th March 2026, Scottish Government, Macmillan and the Centre for Sustainability Delivery brought together colleagues from across NHS Scotland and partner organisations for an event titled, “Advancing Cancer Prehabilitation Across Scotland: From National Vision to Local Implementation”.

The event gave an opportunity to:

• Showcase best practice examples
• Introduce the new national implementation toolkit
• Provide space and time for colleagues to come together and engage in local action planning to facilitate change
• Share strategic updates

The overall event aims were to:

• Provide an overview of national developments and achievements to date
• Facilitate discussion, networking, and collaboration
• Support local implementation of personalised, multi-modal prehabilitation

The slides presented on the day are available below.

Resources

Implementing prehabilitation in Scotland

A number of resources to support those developing a prehabilitation service in Scotland (or beyond) are available on the ‘Resources for Implementation’ page.