Doubt Kills

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National Campaign for Cardiac Rehab - an update
for the BACR Friday 3rd October 2008
Ruairi OConnor Policy Public Affairs
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Overview

• What weve done
• Successes
• New opportunities

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Campaign messages

• Cardiac rehab saves lives
• Cardiac rehab is not expensive
• Without it patients are 25 more likely to die
  within five years
• Yet, the NSFs target of 85 accessibility to CR
  is still far from being met

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National Audit 2008

• There continues to be
• a severe lack of CR provision in the UK
• massive inter and intra-regional variations in
  the level and standard of CR
• significant underfunding despite superb efforts
  of individual staff

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Whats the campaign done?

• People power
• Direct lobbying
• Parliamentary work
• Working with Government
• DH prioritisation
• Four nations
• Awareness raising
• Media work
• Four nations

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People power

• 10,000 petition signatures and counting
• Information shared with Health Ministers
• Email addresses helping us keep in touch with
  campaigners
• e-newsletter
• BHFs Heart Support Groups

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Parliamentary protest
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Parliamentary work

• BHF meetings with key politicians
• Party conferences 2007 and 2008
• e-advocacy email service
• bhf.org.uk/cardiacrehab
• 500 emails sent
• 100 Hansard mentions

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In the media
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In the media
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Successes so far

• England Renewed DH activity
• National Clinical Lead and National Clinical
  Adviser
• NHS Heart Improvement Programme pilot sites
• Payment by Results Working Group
• Scotland Significant CR commitments in July 2008
  CHD and Stroke Strategy
• Wales 2 million ring-fenced funding to stop CR
  programmes going under

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New opportunities

• The NSF runs out in late 2009 whats next?
• Election 2010
• Aim to make CR a political issue
• Building up our campaigner support
• Involving 300 Heart Support Groups
• Engaging PCTs - making the most of LINKs
• Further progress in Scotland, Wales and N.
  Ireland
• Getting better case studies

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