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Cardiac Rehabilitation

Checked: 10-06-2024 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 09-06-2026

Introduction

Cardiac rehabilitation should be offered to all patients following an MI, acute coronary syndrome or coronary artery bypass surgery.

For patients who have had their event or surgery in a hospital the referral should be done by secondary care.

If a patient has had a coronary event or surgery outside of Bristol or had an event more than 6 months ago then a referral can be made from primary care.

Referral - NBT

The NBT website has information for patients about their cardiac rehab team. Referrals can be emailed.

Contact details:

Email: cardiacrehab@nbt.nhs.uk

Telephone: 0117 4140040

Please note that the NBT cardiac rehab team do not follow up heart valve surgery patients.

Referral UHBW

Criteria for acceptance at UHBW - Acute MI, PPCI, PCI & CABG +/- Valve

Please note that the UHBW cardiac rehab team do not routinely follow up heart valve surgery patients unless they are performed in conjunction with Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

For UHBW Cardiac Rehabilitation referrals for Bristol and Weston, and general enquiries email: cardiacrehab@uhbw.nhs.uk

Telephone: 0117 342 6601 for any further cardiac rehab queries.

Healthy Hearts - Cardiac Rehabilitation

Bristol City Council website has information about cardiac rehab services in the community for Bristol patients.

They offer follow up of patients in the community following secondary care cardiac rehab and are normally referred by these teams.

They also offer Phase IV (Health Hearts) rehab which provides ongoing exercise and maintenance of lifestyle changes in community setting. Patient leaflets, timetables and referral form are all available on their website.

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