Prehabilitation before cancer surgery in the UK National Health Service: what services exist, and how do they address health inequalities?

• Hilary Stewart ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: h.stewart4@lancaster.ac.uk

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Xiubin Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Yasemin Hirst,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Applied Health Research Hub, University of Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0167-9428

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• Laura Wareing,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Lisa Ashmore,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Christopher Gaffney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7990-2792

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• Charlotte Hadley,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3415-1678

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• Ces Kulikowski,

  Roles Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Jo Rycroft-Malone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Clifford Shelton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom, Department of Anaesthesia, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-398X

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• Andrew Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Collaborators

  ¶A list of collaborators is provided in the acknowledgements.

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