Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure
REACH-HF
Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure
REACH-HF
If you are a trained REACH-HF cardiac rehabilitation healthcare professional and you’re interested in rolling out the digital version of the REACH-HF manual to patients with heart failure in your area, please get in touch with us: reach-hf@exeter.ac.uk We can’t wait to launch this new platform to improve accessibility of cardiac rehab – we look […]
The Universities of Dundee, Glasgow, Exeter, Birmingham, Cambridge and York have received £2.4 million to lead a clinical trial of a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme for people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and their caregivers. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment Programme funding will allow them to undertake a […]
The REACH-HF programme has been rolled-out in four NHS centres and across health boards in Scotland, using the paper manual. Although the programme has been well received by patients, care-givers and health-professionals, we have had many requests for it to be in a digital format, e.g. accessed via a website or app. We received funding […]
The Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) team, who developed a home-based rehabilitation programme that could help thousands of heart failure patients to achieve a better quality of life, are delighted to announce that they have won a prestigious BMJ Award – Stroke and Cardiovascular Team of the Year! The REACH-HF programme was developed by […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, REACH-HF training for health professional facilitators is being offered free of charge to ensure heart failure patients can continue to receive cardiac rehabilitation at home. The 2-day training, jointly sponsored by the Heart Manual Department (NHS Lothian), Health and Care Innovations and the REACH-HF Study Group, will be delivered remotely, via […]
REACH-HF, a new rehabilitation programme which helps heart failure patients achieve better quality of life from the comfort of their own homes will now be rolled out at four NHS centres across the UK. Research has found that the Rehabilitation Enablement in CHronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) programme, developed by a collaboration led by the University of […]