TSJCI Annual Report 2021

Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute Annual Report 2021 25 3.2 Key Priorities for 2022 • Further develop the rehabilitation pathway from prehabilitation to cancer survivorship, including the development of pathways from acute to primary care. Key areas for expansion include: • exercise-based rehabilitation. • occupational therapy (OT) self-management programme (Optimal). • assessment, diagnosis and management of communication and swallowing disorders secondary to direct/systemic effects of the cancer and of oncology treatment. • outpatient and telephone clinic to manage enteral feeding tube complications and further expand existing HPN and HEF dietetic services. • early pre-operative assessment, counselling and prehabilitation to all head and neck cancer patients. • facilitate earlier hospital discharges on home NG and NJ feeding following upper GI surgery. • Further develop a blended in person/telehealth model for ambulatory SCOPe services. • Act as an educational resource on the management of the physical and psychological side effects of cancer to other HSCP and hospital staff. :