Home-based cardiac rehabilitation training offered free to cardiac teams

NHS staff are being offered free training to deliver a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme to help support heart failure patients affected by restricted access to cardiac rehabilitation due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Rehabilitation Enablement in CHronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF), a 12-week, evidence-based home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme was developed to help increase participation in rehabilitation therapies for heart failure patients and carers by bringing care into their own homes. Researchers at the Universities of Exeter, Birmingham, and York and the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, in collaboration with the Heart Manual Department, NHS Lothian, brought together clinicians, academics, patients and