More about Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac rehabilitation is designed to help people who are recovering from a heart attack, or who have undergone a heart procedure such as stenting/angioplasty/other cardiac surgery

Cardiac rehabilitation is also beneficial for people with angina and heart failure. Cardiac rehabilitation is tailored to your individual needs, you will be offered:

• Community Clinic: Clinical assessment following cardiac event or surgery, on behalf of the cardiology consultants. This can be via telephone, remotely or face to face. You will be offered a choice of exercise programmes during this appointment.
• Supervised exercise: Graduated and individually prescribed exercise programmes which run for up to 8 weeks. Home based exercise programmes are also available.
• Education and information: Personalised information and education on a range of healthy lifestyle topics to improve your heart health and support you to get back to normal life. Education sessions are also offered in a group format as part of the supervised program.
• Support to access other services including: smoking cessation; weight management as well as stress and anxiety support and other longer term exercise programs if required. 
• Home Based Programmes: Tailored home programmes are available if required with individual follow up to monitor progress. Follow up will be via telephone or video call.

Where is the service provided?

Cardiac rehabilitation clinics are available Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) 0900 – 1700 at a variety of venues:

Primary Care Centre
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 3GW          Click here for map

Jubilee Unit, Clacton and District Hospital
Tower Road
Clacton-on-Sea
CO4 5LJ           Click here for map

Fryatt Hospital
419 Main Road
Harwich
CO12 4EX         Click here for map

Exercise programmes are held in the following venues:

Physio gym, Fryatt Hospital
419 Main Road
Harwich
CO12 4EX         Click here for map

North Gym, Colchester Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JL         Click here for map

Tendring District Scout Centre
Valley Road
Clacton On Sea
CO15 6NA                   Click to view map

How to access the service

Referrals are usually made by the doctor or nurse on discharge from hospital.

Your GP can also refer you.

The team consists of clinical nurse specialists and associate practitioners/exercise specialists.