Exercise and nutrition, built around your cancer treatment.

Wherever you are with treatment
  • Before treatment
  • During treatment
  • After treatment
  • Living beyond cancer
The UK's largest base of exercise physiologists

Holistic healthcare, built around you

The Health Nav brings a clinical exercise physiologist, a registered dietitian and an oncology nurse together on one plan, built around your treatment and in step with your treatment team.

What's included

  • Weekly exercise sessions

    With your clinical exercise physiologist

  • Dietitian consultations

    Eating well through treatment

  • Nurse support

    Our oncology nurse and team, whenever you need

  • Your progress dashboard

    Your progress and metrics in one place

The evidence behind it

Exercise and nutrition are part of good cancer care, not extras. These are examples, not a full review.

80.3%With the exercise programme
73.9%With health-education materials alone

Five-year disease-free survival, in a randomised trial of a three-year structured exercise programme.

889 patients with resected stage III or high-risk stage II colon cancer, after adjuvant chemotherapy. A difference of 6.4 percentage points (95% CI 0.6 to 12.2).

New England Journal of Medicine, 2025
Cancer surgery prehab~50%

fewer complications after lung-cancer surgery with prehabilitation.

Lung-cancer surgery prehab meta-analysis
Nutrition during treatment29%

fewer deaths within 30 days with individualised nutritional support (14.1% against 19.9%), in 506 people in hospital with cancer at risk of malnutrition.

Annals of Oncology, 2021 (randomised trial)
Cardiac rehabilitation26%

lower risk of cardiovascular death with exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation.

European Heart Journal, 2023 (meta-analysis)

Led by degree-qualified, registered specialists

Your plan is led by degree-qualified, registered healthcare professionals, not fitness instructors or unregulated nutritionists.

Clinical exercise physiologists

  • Master's degree in clinical exercise physiology
  • On the Academy for Healthcare Science register, accredited by the Professional Standards Authority
  • Specialists in exercise for cancer and long-term conditions

Registered dietitians

  • Degree-qualified, with “dietitian” a title protected by law
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
  • Experienced in eating well through cancer treatment

We check every practitioner's qualifications and registration before they join.

Meet our practitioners

How to get started

  1. Answer a few questionsAbout two minutes. Tell us where you are with treatment and what you'd like to work on.
  2. We call you and build your teamWithin one working day. We match you with an exercise physiologist and a dietitian.
  3. Start your planIn person or online, shaped around your treatment and adjusted as you go.
Start today

Start your plan today

For you, or someone you care for. A few questions and we'll take it from there.

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For oncology teams, GPs and allied health professionals. Send us a referral and, if your patient agrees, we'll keep you updated.

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