Introduce fitness classes under the NHS service to those post cancer treatment.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

Introduce fitness classes under the NHS prescription service. 200,000 people in the UK each year recover from cancer and receive limited to no access to supported fitness programs. Suffering chronic fatigue and severe physical impact there is need to provide supported fitness programs to recover.

To introduce access to local gyms and fitness centres to access fitness classes post cancer treatment under prescribed support. To review the current NHS guidance on the return to fitness post cancer treatment. Along with medicinal prescriptions fitness classes close to the home address of the patient should be included post cancer treatment. To connect with trained fitness professionals across the UK to offer a meaningful pathway of structured and progressive exercise rehabilitation.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

The NHS can already prescribe exercise as a treatment for a range of conditions. Deciding when to prescribe exercise, and what type of activity would suit a patient, is a clinical decision for individual GPs.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to fund fitness classes for people who are recovering from cancer treatment, if that's something you'd like to happen.

Timeline

1 May 2022	Petition opened for signatures
5 May 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 May 2022

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