"Beam for Cancer” - research and development of an innovative online rehabilitation program and clinical package to support patients living with cancer through COVID and beyond

BEAM是一个在线锻炼平台，旨在支持有特定健康状况的人长期从事锻炼。我们已经成功地为囊性纤维症(CF)患者、出生后妇女和更年期妇女打造了我们的产品。在新冠肺炎大流行期间全球医疗保健供应严重中断之后，许多国民健康保险制度和私人医疗从业者与我们接洽，我们正在构建我们的平台，以便支持英国各地数千名有健康需求的人参与根据他们的需求量身定做的有监督的运动。我们的第一个服务将是与世界知名的癌症中心合作，通过我们的平台在英国各地提供癌症康复。社区对每个人都很重要，我们的品牌以专注于这一点而自豪。因此，我们将举办由癌症物理治疗师主持的现场小组课程，每周运行三次，以在这段与世隔绝的时期提供集体锻炼课程的好处。我们明白，有时我们无法进行我们计划的课程，或者只是不想在小组中锻炼-我们将通过一组专家和验证的点播视频来覆盖这一点，以便随时访问！为了帮助经历癌症治疗的艰难旅程，我们还允许您通过我们的平台加入公共团体，在那里您可以遇到其他经历类似旅程的人。但这还不是全部。我们认识到，知道做什么运动是令人望而生畏的，每个人的能力或愿望都不同，我们需要的是一个我们信任的人，在这个过程中帮助我们。因此，我们将开创性地提供“诊所支持”，这是任何其他平台都无法提供的。在这一全新的功能中，您自己的肿瘤学团队将能够尽可能频繁地为您和您诊所的其他患者提供私人锻炼课程。_Clinic Support_将包括各种监控您的健康和跟踪活动水平的方法，并将包括访问加密的私人消息系统，该系统允许您向您的团队寻求有关锻炼和康复的建议，使您在旅途中永远不会感到孤独。我们的目标是在这一困难时期以前所未有的方式为癌症患者带来真正的改变。Impact资金的延期将投资于改进我们目前的技术平台，使其更具可扩展性，并更好地满足不同NHS信托基金的NHS治理要求。这将加快我们未来产品的上市时间，以服务于其他肿瘤群体和健康状况，并打开与更多NHS信托基金的机会。这将意味着，在2021年3月31日之前，我们将能够启动BEAM乳腺癌(为乳腺癌患者提供康复服务和支持)，作为该项目的一部分。

Beam is an online exercise platform created to support people with specific health conditions to engage with exercise long term. We have successfully built our product for people with cystic fibrosis (CF), postnatal women and women undergoing the menopause.Following the huge disruption to healthcare provision worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic and having been approached by a number of NHS and private healthcare practitioners, we are building out our platform in order to support thousands more people across the UK with health needs to engage in supervised exercise tailored to their needs. Our first offering will be to work with a world renowned cancer centre to provide cancer rehabilitation across the UK through our platform.Community is important for everyone and our brand prides itself on focussing on this point. We will therefore be running live group classes hosted by a cancer physiotherapist running three times a week to provide the benefits of group exercise classes during this period of isolation. We understand that sometimes we are not able to make classes that we had planned to, or simply do not want to workout in a group - we will have this covered with a bank of specialist and verified on-demand videos to be accessed at any time and as often as required! To help with the difficult journey of undergoing cancer treatment we also have the option for you to join public groups through our platform where you can meet other people going through a similar journey.That's not all though. We recognise that knowing what exercise to do is daunting and everyone's abilities or desires are different and that what we need is someone we trust helping us along the way. Therefore we will be pioneering "clinic support", not available through any other platform. In this brand new feature, your own oncology team will be able to deliver private exercise classes as often as they can to you and fellow patients from your clinic. _Clinic support_ will include a variety of ways to monitor your health and track activity levels and will include access to an encrypted private messaging system allowing you to seek advice from your team about exercise and rehabilitation so you never feel alone in your journey.We aim to make a real difference to people with cancer during this difficult time in a way that has never been achieved before.------------------------During the course of the original project we will launch Beam Prostate Cancer, providing rehabilitation services and support for people with prostate cancer. The Extension for Impact funding will be invested in improving our current technology platform to make it more scalable and to better meet the NHS governance requirements of different NHS Trusts. This will speed up our time to market of future products to serve other tumour groups and health conditions as well as open up opportunities with more NHS Trusts. This will mean that, before 31st March, 2021, we will be able to launch Beam Breast Cancer (rehabilitation services and support for people with breast cancer) as part of this project.