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The Hunts Community Cancer Network (HCCN) in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire has partnered local innovator with Aseptika Ltd to better support cancer patients.

HCCN has developed an innovative approach to delivering enhanced home-based nursing services to patients recovering from or living with cancer in Huntingdonshire.

The aim is to better support patients’ progress, track their participation in classes – and monitor any changes in their health and wellbeing.

The partnership with Aseptika Ltd is to offer the enhanced Get Active programme, to avoid the recurrence of cancer through rehabilitation, wellness classes, peer support and mentoring.

The support was initially provided through a collaboration comprising the Hunts Community Cancer nursing team, St Neots Community Learning centre, the HCCN charity and volunteers.

Together they developed a framework for cancer rehabilitation classes to be led by a qualified personal trainer, who is a former oncology nurse. The classes are a hybrid between Phase 3 and Phase 4 rehab services, which take place three times per week and are free to patients, said the council.

A newly formed partnership with Aseptika Ltd has enabled HCCN to offer their Activ8rlives (A8) platform, a BuddyBand2 activity tracker, to patients and integrate the Cloud-based system with the Clinician’s A8 Portal, to monitor adherence to exercise and to see any warning signs of relapse.

Eastern Academic Health Science Network (Eastern AHSN) has been supporting both the Hunts Community Cancer Network since April, as well as Aseptika Ltd, to expand the functionality of the A8 system to more comprehensively track patient progress.

The council says that increasing automation has allowed HCCN to release time for nursing staff to engage directly with more patients, providing additional education, mental and emotional support during treatment or post cancer recovery.

The Eastern AHSN has also provided the team with access to Patient Activation Measure licences, to monitor and measure the impact of the programme for those participating.

Director of Transformation at the Eastern AHSN, Victoria Corbishley, said:

“We were delighted to be working with the Hunts Community Cancer Network, bringing together the needs of our local population and innovators, to develop a blueprint for great care for cancer patients in the region.”

HCCN is also in the process of establishing a new partnership with Huntingdonshire District Council, to establish a new Phase 4 cancer rehabilitation class which will support patients graduating to ongoing community-based exercise – releasing capacity for HCCN to support patients who have an active cancer diagnosis.

Eastern AHSN is supporting HCCN to develop a blueprint for the model, engaging with the East of England Clinical Cancer Network to support adoption and spread in the region.

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