Cardiac Rehabilitation at Jubilee 2
To receive a verbal update from the Council’s Executive Director – Operational Services.
Minutes:
The Council’s Executive Director – Operational Services indicated that progress had been made in developing a programme for Cardiac Rehabilitation – Phase III based within the Jubilee 2 Health and Wellbeing Centre.
A draft service level agreement had been prepared and was awaiting confirmation by North Staffs PCT. The provisional start date of 18 August 2012 had not been met due to the delay in finalising the Service Level Agreement.
It was stated that when the programme started, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust (UHNS) would provide staff to deliver Cardiac Rehabilitation at Jubilee 2 alongside the Council’s staff who had also been trained in cardiac rehabilitation. The UHNS staff would include Nursing and Exercise Physiology/Physiotherapy professionals and on these days responsibility for the patients attending Cardiac Rehabilitation will be held by the staff from UHNS.
Patients accessing Jubilee 2 would have been initially stratified as being at low risk of further cardiac events while attending Cardiac Rehabilitation. During their Cardiac Rehabilitation programme, which will last for eight weeks, patients will also be encouraged to exercise independently on additional days at Jubilee 2 under the supervision of an Exercise Instructor from Jubilee 2 with a relevant Cardiac Rehabilitation qualification.
During these additional sessions, patients would consent to exercise at their own risk, but with the support of the appropriately qualified Jubilee 2 staff member.
Following completion of their eight week cardiac rehabilitation programme, patients will then be encouraged to continue their exercise through the North Staffordshire PCT Exercise Referral Scheme.
Resolved:- (a) That the information be received.
(b) That every effort be made to secure an early start date for the programme.
(c) That Staffordshire County Council be advised of the delay in commencing the programme and that the Chairman of this committee be asked to raise the issue at the next meeting of the County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee.