Integrated cardiac rehabilitation service meets NSF targets

An approach to cardiac rehabilitation that integrates hospital based services with nurse led secondary prevention clinics in primary care achieves the targets of the national service framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease. Dalal and Evans (p 481) report on an innovative, integrated approach to cardiac rehabilitation that offered patients a choice of home and hospital based cardiac rehabilitation. Home rehabilitation with the Heart Manual, a structured guide for patients, was popular with patients, and it may increase the uptake of cardiac rehabilitation in rural communities. The service ensured good communication across the primary care-secondary care interface, maximised uptake of cardiac rehabilitation, and optimised secondary prevention measures.

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Achieving national service framework standards for cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention

Hasnain M Dalal and Philip H Evans
BMJ 2003 326: 481-484. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]