National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation.

The Hull & East Riding Cardiac Rehabilitation is service is a nationally accredited programme, therefore the service meets high quality standards set by a joint initiative by the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) and the National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation (NACR)

During your initial assessment, the nursing team will ask for your verbal consent to be included in the NACR audit. Information on your medical history, demographics, smoking, physical activity and mental and physical well-being is entered manually into the NACR through a secure online portal, provided by NHS England.  Data is also gathered by the Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurses through purpose-designed questionnaires. Patients complete a questionnaire at their initial assessment and reassessment.

Cardiovascular prevention and Rehabilitation services are a vital part of the care pathway for patients with heart disease. It is an evidence based intervention which reduces future mortality and morbidity, is cost effective and is recommended by many national and international guidelines. It should be available to everyone with heart disease, but not all patients are offered the chance to take part.

The NACR aims to increase the availability and uptake of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation, promote best practice and improve service quality in cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation services by:

• informing local and national planners, providers and commissioners where services are not reaching expected standards as defined in key national guidance

• identifying inequitable provision so that local providers of cardiac rehabilitation can formulate appropriate business plans and work towards all patients having an equal opportunity to benefit

• describing the typical gains that a patient can expect from cardiac rehabilitation against which the effectiveness of individual programmes can be judged

• examining reasons for variation in patient outcomes between programmes, so that services can be helped to improve

• sharing national trend data with appropriate national bodies including the Department of Health, NHS England, National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), Cardiovascular Care Partnership UK and the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (BACPR)

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