Hearty Lives Fife
Coronary heart disease accounts for a large
number of hospital admissions and premature deaths in
Fife.
Hearty Lives Fife was a £100,000 project working alongside
NHS Fife and Fife Cardiac Rehab
Services to improve quality of life for heart patients in
the Fife area. The project ended in September
2012.
Our aim
To provide health coaching services focused on
cardiac rehabilitation in areas of Fife
with high levels of deprivation and heart disease. Two cardiac health coaches,
Lynsey McGregor and Fiona Prendergast lead the service
by:
Cardiac rehabilitation helps maximise recovery from cardiac events, prevent further incidents and unnecessary re-admissions to hospital
- providing
information for patients who require support to
improve their lifestyles
-
directing patients to relevant
local services
- helping to
identify and follow up on those patients who drop out of the
various phases of rehabilitation.
Hearty Lives Fife allowed Fife Cardiac
Rehabilitation Services to increase in capacity,
seeing referrals double and the support service
redesigned.
This created a central point of access for
patients referred to cardiac rehabilitation. Three new cardiac
programmes were established, including one evening class in an area
of high CVD incidence.
These new programmes have helped to increase
access of cardiac rehabilitation, increasing choice of venues and
activity.
More info
For more information please contact Jemima
Traill, Lead Cardiac Rehab Nurse, jemimatraill@nhs.net