Cardiac rehabilitation is a complex intervention offered to patients diagnosed with heart disease, which includes components of health education, advice on cardiovascular risk reduction, physical activity and stress management.

Evidence that cardiac rehabilitation reduces mortality, morbidity, unplanned hospital admissions in addition to improvements in exercise capacity, quality of life and psychological well-being is increasing, and it is now recommended in international guidelines.

The network is currently looking at innovative ways to extend reach and uptake of CR services to patients. Included in this is the pilot across acute and community cardiac rehabilitation providers to provide additional nursing and physiotherapy resources and a digital pilot of tailored exercise programmes.