NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR CARDIAC REHABILITATION

That this House supports the National Campaign for Cardiac Rehabilitation backed by the British Heart Foundation, the British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation and associated patient groups; recognises that cardiac rehabilitation is a treatment which improves quality of life for people living with cardiovascular disease and can reduce the risk of dying prematurely from the disease by 26 per cent; understands that despite this, in the UK 60 per cent. of the patients who need it do not have access to it; recognises that cardiac rehabilitation is extremely cost-effective at a cost of only around £550 per patient; and supports the campaign's call for every heart patient to have access to a high quality cardiac rehabilitation programme by the end of 2010.