The Network covers all of Greater Manchester and Central & Eastern Cheshire.
Cardiac Rehabilitation Pathway
Cardiac rehabilitation is the process by which a person is encouraged to achieve their full potential in terms of physical and psychological health. In order to be successful, cardiac rehabilitation must draw on the skills of many members of the health care team and involve a combination of education, psychological support, exercise, training and behavioural change. It is a treatment that saves lives with a proven ability to reduce all cause mortality by 20% and produce a 27% reduction in cardiac mortality at 2 - 5 years. Effective cardiac rehabilitation results in improved quality of life and a reduction in hospital admissions.
Recent guidelines from the British Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation (BACR) stress the importance of providing an individual or ‘menu’ based approach to cardiac rehabilitation. We are working with all organisations to support this programme.
We host two conferences per year for cardiac rehabilitation practitioners and patient representatives. The conferences provide updates on national projects and the opportunity to share good practice across the Network. Look out for future dates on the calendar.
The majority of cardiac rehabilitation programmes across the Network are now using the National Audit for Cardiac Rehabilitation (NACR) database. This database has been developed by The University of York with the support of the British Heart Foundation and aims to provide national statistics to support the development of rehabilitation programmes. We have supported the implementation of the NACR across the Network.
Click here to view the British Association of Cardiac Rehabilitation website.
Click here to view the National Audit for Cardiac Rehabilitation.
To find out more about our cardiac working groups click here.
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