Person-centred care and the House of Care
Learn how care and support planning – delivered via the House of Care framework – can improve the quality of care for your patients.
High quality help with recovery is crucial to improving patients’ quality of life and preventing future cardiovascular events. However, historically recovery and support services have not been available to everyone who would benefit. The overall mean uptake of cardiac rehabilitation in the UK is just 50%, and there is considerable variation in attendance between different groups.
Achieving an uptake rate for cardiac rehabilitation of 85% in England, as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan, could lead to nearly 20,000 fewer deaths and nearly 50,000 fewer hospital admissions over the next ten years, as well as saving tens of millions of pounds in future care costs. But to do this we need a new offer, re-designing services around the person and not the institution. Support services also need to address the wider needs of patients, providing psychological and emotional support, as well as supporting their physical health.
Alongside our national influencing work, we are working to support local health and care systems to improve recovery and support services for people with heart and circulatory diseases. Along with colleagues at Nesta, Macmillan Cancer Support, and the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, the BHF recently published an evidence-based toolkit to help people reach their recovery goals. To find out more about how we can rethink the way health is given across our health and wellbeing systems.
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