technology<\/a> to track physical activity levels. Specialists claimed the schemes “offer real potential to transform” the delivery of this care category to individual patients.<\/p>\nApproximately seven million Britons are thought to be impacted by cardiovascular illness covered by this fresh guidance, yet conventional rehabilitation schemes suffer from poor participation rates.<\/p>\n
During 2023, merely 41% of people with acute coronary syndrome, encompassing ailments such as heart attack and angina, took part in cardiac rehabilitation schemes across England.<\/p>\n
Just 13% of heart failure patients enrolled in the programmes during their recuperation. Rehabilitation for these conditions can slash the risk of additional heart troubles and hospital stays.<\/p>\n
Currently, these services are typically provided on the NHS through in-person consultations. Participation rates are notably poor amongst women, younger people, ethnic minorities, those in disadvantaged communities and others who find it difficult to attend face-to-face sessions.<\/p>\n
It’s hoped that shifting this treatment online could boost the number of people getting involved. Dr Anastasia Chalkidou, healthtech programme director at Nice, said: “These digital platforms offer real potential to transform how cardiac rehabilitation is offered to people to meet their individual circumstances.<\/p>\n
“We know that traditional programmes aren’t reaching everyone who could benefit – particularly women, younger patients and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.<\/p>\n
“The early data is promising and suggests, with safeguards in place, more people should now be given the opportunity to use these new technologies.<\/p>\n
“This three-year evidence collection period will give us the additional robust data we need to determine whether these innovations should be recommended as a permanent part of cardiac care.”<\/p>\n
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The programmes offer advice and guidance on medications, diet, exercise and more(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, NICE has acknowledged that the digital rehabilitation won’t be appropriate for all patients. A qualified NHS healthcare professional will still be required to carry out a comprehensive clinical evaluation before recommending these platforms to individual patients.<\/p>\n
Following a three-year period of evidence collection, NICE will assess the data and make a decision on whether the technology can be regularly integrated into the NHS.<\/p>\n
A consultation on the conditional recommendation is currently in progress and will conclude on 3 September. NICE stated that seven other platforms \u2013 Beat Better, Datos Health, Get Ready, Luscii vitals, Pumping Marvellous Cardiac Rehab Platform, R Plus Health and Sword Move \u2013 require further research before they can receive NHS funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven million people in the UK could be affected by the new draft guidanceCardiac rehabilitation programmes can reduce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,302,211,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-357867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-heart-disease","11":"tag-nhs","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057809665271769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Cardiac rehabilitation programmes can reduce the risk of further heart problems and hospitalisations(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n![\"Person](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755642731_531_0_Person-experiencing-heart-symptoms.jpg\")
Uptake of cardiac rehabilitation programmes is particularly poor(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n