Post-cardiac Rehabilitation

HC Deb 18 June 2003 vol 407 c281W

Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what provision is made in national service frameworks for post-cardiac rehabilitation. [119051]

Miss Melanie Johnson

Provision for cardiac rehabilitation is addressed in standard 12 of the national service framework for coronary heart disease. This states that,NHS Trusts should put in place agreed protocols/systems of care so that, prior to leaving hospital, people admitted to hospital suffering from coronary heart disease have been invited to participate in a multidisciplinary programme of secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation. The aim of the programme will be to reduce their risk of subsequent cardiac problems and to promote their return to a full and normal life".