Our cardiac rehabilitation team includes specialists from different areas who support patients and their families through heart disease.
Our team includes:
- Nurses
- Exercise specialists
- A dietitian
- Mental health support workers
Support for patients and families
We help people and their families understand heart disease. We will explain your condition, treatments, and symptoms to look out for.
Helping you lower the risk of future heart problems
We help you make changes to lower the risk of future heart problems, including:
- Safe ways to increase activity and exercise
- Support to stop smoking and cut down on alcohol
- Advice on healthy eating
- Help with anxiety and mental health
A programme tailored to your needs
We tailor our programme to meet your specific needs.
Who we support
We support people with conditions such as:
- Heart attacks and other heart problems
- Heart surgery
- Heart failure
- Angina
- Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)
- Recovery after having an ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator) or CRT (Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy device) fitted
Different ways to do cardiac rehab
You can do cardiac rehab in different ways, including:
- Home-based programmes
- Group classes
- Online sessions
- Phone support
Where we run sessions
We run sessions at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and in the community at:
- Meadows Community Centre (Arbury)
- Ely Paradise Centre
- Royston Leisure Centre
Information for patients
Cardiac Rehabilitation can be adjusted in general to suit your needs and we try to offer a variety of options so that at least one is suitable and easy for you to engage with.
You will be offered:
- Initial nurse consultation (telephone or face-to-face) to get the rehab process started.
- Dietitian review (telephone) – 2-3 weeks post discharge
- Education around your condition, risk factor management and appropriate lifestyle changes; can be undertaken via booklets, face to face group sessions or virtually.
- Exercise sessions, including a 1-2-1 initial assessment to personalise your exercise advice or program. Onward delivery of exercise can take place through group based supervised exercise classes, home based programs with telephone follow up, or attending a virtual exercise group.
- Emotional support and general wellbeing, including where needed a referral to the Talking Therapy Service (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust).
- Stop smoking support, including where needed a referral to the local stop smoking service to help with smoking cessation.
- Discharge from Cardiac Rehabilitation with an exercise completion assessment, including discussion of long term management of your condition, and direction to long term local support groups.
If you have questions about Cardiac Rehabilitation, call our team on 01223 216985.
For more information on heart health, visit:
Non-urgent advice: Exercising at home
We help you continue your rehab on your own, outside of group sessions.