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Exercising – being physically active - is important for everyone, including patients with cancer. The Royal Marsden has created a Physical Activity Strategy with staff, patients and interested partners. You will find it on the right of this page. The aim is that everyone at the Royal Marsden is encouraged to be active.
We want to get to a place within the Trust where physical activity is seen as everyone’s business. We know that people who are active themselves are more likely to encourage physical activity with their patients so this strategy is very much for our staff and volunteers as well as our for our patients.
During the launch of the strategy our volunteers led guided walks using maps (see them on the right of this page) close to our hospital sites which we co-designed with a charity called Living Streets. We are keen to know whether patients would like us to continue providing these guided walks from our Sutton and Chelsea sites.
How you can get involved
Please share your ideas on these guided walks. Would you like to take part? How long should they be? What time of day should they take place? Please add your suggestions to the ideas board below.
NEW! As we plan the new Chelsea Cancer Centre development, we would like ideas about how the new hospital site could encourage people to be more active, please add yours to the guestbook below.
Exercising – being physically active - is important for everyone, including patients with cancer. The Royal Marsden has created a Physical Activity Strategy with staff, patients and interested partners. You will find it on the right of this page. The aim is that everyone at the Royal Marsden is encouraged to be active.
We want to get to a place within the Trust where physical activity is seen as everyone’s business. We know that people who are active themselves are more likely to encourage physical activity with their patients so this strategy is very much for our staff and volunteers as well as our for our patients.
During the launch of the strategy our volunteers led guided walks using maps (see them on the right of this page) close to our hospital sites which we co-designed with a charity called Living Streets. We are keen to know whether patients would like us to continue providing these guided walks from our Sutton and Chelsea sites.
How you can get involved
Please share your ideas on these guided walks. Would you like to take part? How long should they be? What time of day should they take place? Please add your suggestions to the ideas board below.
NEW! As we plan the new Chelsea Cancer Centre development, we would like ideas about how the new hospital site could encourage people to be more active, please add yours to the guestbook below.
As we plan the new Chelsea Cancer Centre development, how could the new hospital site encourage people to be more active?
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Subject close to my heart, altho from a paediaytric perspective and as you are closing the children’s unit maybe you don’t care. But I hope this could be shared with Evalina as they draw up their plans? 150 nights inpatient at RMH, Kings and St George’s. No member of staff ever said ‘it’s a nice day maybe go outside’. Doors locked and no passes for us to be able to let ourselves out to garden. We found our own walking routes around RMH and ICR carparks and campus. Made up games for the garden, tennis using sliders (flip flops) as bats, volleyball over the bunting. We used the basketball hoop in the tiny courtyard garden. Daughter had chemo in the garden and walked about with the drip stand. On 3 occasions was there another child outside. You have to have staff understand the importance of exercise and fresh air and make it easier to get to (given us) a pass. And approach in a non preachy but encouraging way.
KM123
9 days ago
The first think that helped me keep active was the Thrive exercise group that used to be run by The Exercise Clinic at Sutton Marsden. Having a weekly class gave me a fixed point I could build my exercise around and although through the six months of chemo I had last year, I saw my fitness and strength drastically decline, knowing the weekly class was there was very motivating and kept me determined to get through the hard times.
A class focused on my particular needs as a cancer patient was extremely helpful. I really hope something similar will be available soon.
Post-chemo, it was Parkrun, and the 5K Your Way running with cancer group that helped me enormously. Thanks to them I went from barely being able to climb a flight of stairs to being able to run/walk 5K in under 40 minutes in about eight months.
Again, having a weekly activity I can structure my exercise around give me a focus for that exercise. I know it's good for me, I enjoy it, but one of the things that motivates is having a point to doing it within the activity cycle. Having that be a group activity also helps. You make friends, you build relationships. It's nice.
Of course the other point is that it helps make my life better, and hopefully longer. And that's vital for me too, because this is one of the few ways I feel I con contribute to my own care, to actively participate rather than just being a recipient of treatment.
SuttonDave
10 days ago
Ensure the reception is as far as possible from the nearest car park and bus stops and provide golf buggy type transport at all entrances for disabled. At reception, each person checking in gets her/his minimum waiting time and a map showing different campus walks with the range of time needed for each. Maybe also provide seating space there only for disabled people. As each person enters the site, automatically connect to their mobile device, and at reception have the device announce the number of steps, walking speed, etc.
Subject close to my heart, altho from a paediaytric perspective and as you are closing the children’s unit maybe you don’t care. But I hope this could be shared with Evalina as they draw up their plans? 150 nights inpatient at RMH, Kings and St George’s. No member of staff ever said ‘it’s a nice day maybe go outside’. Doors locked and no passes for us to be able to let ourselves out to garden. We found our own walking routes around RMH and ICR carparks and campus. Made up games for the garden, tennis using sliders (flip flops) as bats, volleyball over the bunting. We used the basketball hoop in the tiny courtyard garden. Daughter had chemo in the garden and walked about with the drip stand. On 3 occasions was there another child outside. You have to have staff understand the importance of exercise and fresh air and make it easier to get to (given us) a pass. And approach in a non preachy but encouraging way.
The first think that helped me keep active was the Thrive exercise group that used to be run by The Exercise Clinic at Sutton Marsden. Having a weekly class gave me a fixed point I could build my exercise around and although through the six months of chemo I had last year, I saw my fitness and strength drastically decline, knowing the weekly class was there was very motivating and kept me determined to get through the hard times.
A class focused on my particular needs as a cancer patient was extremely helpful. I really hope something similar will be available soon.
Post-chemo, it was Parkrun, and the 5K Your Way running with cancer group that helped me enormously. Thanks to them I went from barely being able to climb a flight of stairs to being able to run/walk 5K in under 40 minutes in about eight months.
Again, having a weekly activity I can structure my exercise around give me a focus for that exercise. I know it's good for me, I enjoy it, but one of the things that motivates is having a point to doing it within the activity cycle.
Having that be a group activity also helps. You make friends, you build relationships. It's nice.
Of course the other point is that it helps make my life better, and hopefully longer. And that's vital for me too, because this is one of the few ways I feel I con contribute to my own care, to actively participate rather than just being a recipient of treatment.
Ensure the reception is as far as possible from the nearest car park and bus stops and provide golf buggy type transport at all entrances for disabled.
At reception, each person checking in gets her/his minimum waiting time and a map showing different campus walks with the range of time needed for each. Maybe also provide seating space there only for disabled people.
As each person enters the site, automatically connect to their mobile device, and at reception have the device announce the number of steps, walking speed, etc.