HEARTBEATS
A cardiac support group formed from cardiac patients and partners, medical staff including Consultant Doctors and Nurses within the Cardiac Departments of the Royal Berkshire and Battle N.H.S Trust.
www.heartbeats.btinternet.co.uk

BRAVE HEARTS
A cardiac support group in South Buckhamshire offering a visiting service to people recently discharged from hospital and providing information on local exercise and rehabilitation programmes.
Contact 0870 020 9419 or bravehearts.bucks@tiscali.co.uk

Nexus Community Active Hearts Chiltern, South Bucks, West Oxford and South Oxford areas Active Hearts is a community based exercise programme for individuals who have experienced heart disease. Active Hearts works closely with the cardiac rehabilitation nurses and physiotherapists to provide a safe and effective exercise sessions at local leisure centres. Call 07970 202 397 or visit www.nexuscommunity.org/health-promotion2.html

CARDIAC REHAB PHASE IV - SOUTH HAMPSHIRE
Patients graduating from Phase III exercise classes are referred on to local Phase IV classes to continue improving their fitness. In South Hampshire classes are run in Portsmouth, Langstone & Lee-On-The-Solent. www.cardiacrehabphaseiv.co.uk

HEART BEAT SUPPORT - WOKINGHAM
Patients graduating from Phase III are invited to join the BRAVEHEARTS Group at the Woking Liesure Centre. http://heartbeat-support-woking.org

RUSHMOOR HEALTHY LIVING Farnborough
A Charity providing a range of Social activities part of which are Phase IV classes. www.rushmoorhealthyliving.org.uk/index.php

BASINGSTOKE & ALTON CARDIAC REHABILITATION CHARITY Ltd
Runs the The Staywell Scheme designed for people at relatively high risk of suffering coronary heart disease www.cardiac-rehab.co.uk

FITCLINIC
Phase IV classes for Sussex, covering Hove,Lewes, Seaford & Haywards Heath www.fitclinic.co.uk

HEART REHABILITATION Wilmington, Kent
An on-line practical guide for people recovering from a heart "event". This new site gives good on-line information and videos. The site is well worth a visit. www.heartrehabilitationexercise.com/?page_id=2

MILTON KEYNES COMMUNITY CARDIAC GROUP
A local charity group established in Milton Keynes in 1989 which offers a safe environment for people with cardiac conditions to exercise in the care of qualified BACR teachers . www.mkcardiacgroup.org/index.htm

HEALTHY HEARTS (Bristol University)
Specially designed for men and women who have heart problems or are considered 'at risk'. Exercises are gentle and progressive and take place in a safe, friendly and supportive environment under the expert guidance of a qualified instructor in cardiac rehabilitation.
www.bristol.ac.uk/bhi/public/classes.html

REDDITCH HALE AND HEARTIES
To provide support for anyone who has heart problems (both for the patient and their partner or carer). Membership is free and all are welcome at our monthly meetings. Regular weekly exercise classes are provided. .
www.redditchhaleandhearties.org.uk/

HEART CARE (The West Midlands Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit).
Each year, Heart Care helps hundreds of people recover from the trauma of a heart attack or serious heart surgery. Rehabilitating the body and rebuilding confidence is what Heart Care is all about. Heart Care is based in Walsall, West Midlands. Patients have ready access to a doctor and medical team. Additionally an after-care facility in Streetly services the north Birmingham area.
www.heart-care.org.uk

GCRA (The Grampian Cardiac Rehabilitation Association Ltd)
The GCRA is a charitable organisation that helps people recover to an active and healthier life following a heart attack or cardiac surgery. GCRA keywords are: COMMITMENT, EFFORT and ENTHUSIASM.
www.gcra.org.uk

Denmead Body Focus (Hampshire)
Classes are for people who have had a heart attack or heart surgery and who have completed a rehabilitation programme or who are advised to take regular exercise by their GP. A referral from a GP or Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse is required. Classes follow on from the hospital rehabilitation programme delivered by the Cardiac Rehab team.
www.bodyfocus.org.uk/Healthy%20Heart.html

Bromley Myaction
MyAction is the first service of its kind in the UK to be set up following the results of EUROACTION -the largest ever European-wide study into family based cardiology prevention which set a new standard for preventive cardiology practice for both hospitals, and primary care. Reflecting the results of the study, MyAction is a community based integrated service which will be held at The Spa Leisure Centre, targeted at people (and their families) who are either coronary patients or people at high risk of heart disease. An in-house nurse will co-ordinate a multi-disciplinary team to advise on diet, lifestyle and well being, including increasing physical activity levels under expert medical supervision
www.bromleymytime.org.uk/MyAction.html

Solihull Heart Support Group
Exercise classes for members who are either heart patients and former heart patients. These are intended to be a natural follow-on from the rehabilitation sessions run at local hospitals, and other heart patients such as angina sufferers are also welcome to attend. The classes form phase 4 in the National Cardiac Rehabilitation programme. The classes have proved so successful that six separate classes are now run on a weekly basis. Classes are only open to members of Solihull Heart Support Group and their partner/carers
www.solihullheartsupport.org.uk

Poole (Dorset)
Patients who have recently had a heart attack or cardiac surgery can now take part in special community exercise classes to aid their rehabilitation thanks to a new partnership initiative between the Borough of Pooles Leisure Services, Poole Heart Support Group and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit at Poole Hospital.
www.poole.gov.uk/news/ref:597735D5238A4E/

BACR
(The British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation)
A multidisciplinary body created to represent and serve the interests of all professionals involved in the provision of cardiac rehablitation. All instructors involved in Phase IV cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes must have undergone BACR training and be suitably qualified. BACR is one of the several bodies affiliated to the British Cardiac Society.
www.bacrphaseiv.co.uk

CARDIAC ATHLETES
If your cardiac recovery has been so good that your cardiologist has agreed to let you return to your favourite sport " so long as you don't over do it ! ", then Cardiac Athletes is for you !!
www.cardiacathletes.org

BCPA
(The British Cardiac Patients Association)
The BCPA (The Zipper Club) is a national Organisation that offers support, reassurance and help to cardiac patients and their carers but has very little to do directly with Phase IV Cardiac Rehabilitation programmes.
www.BCPA.co.uk or contact its head office(01954 202022)

NHS Heart Improvement Programme
From April 2008 the Heart Improvement Programme has merged with the Cancer Services Collaborative 'Improvement Partnership', Diagnostics Service Improvement and Stroke Improvement to form a new national improvement programme in England, "NHS Improvement".
www.improvement.nhs.uk/

BHF
(The British Heart Foundation)
The BHF aims to play a leading role in the fight against heart disease so that it is no longer a major cause of disability and premature death. The website gives access (by postcode) to its affiliated Groups some of which promote Phase IV Cardiac Rehabilitation exercise programmes.
www.bhf.org.uk

Cardiac Rehabilitation
The official repository of the BACR/BHF national register of cardiac rehabilitation programmes. This database has recently undergone extensive modernisation and is now the good foundation for a national database for cardiac rehabilitation. It now permits separate search and identification facilities for around 400 phase 4 Organisations or locations. Give it a try !!
www.cardiac-rehabilitation.net/

HEART UK
A patient-based organisation whose aim is to raise awareness of the dangers of high cholesterol with respect to heart disease and to stress the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
www.familyheart.org

HEART UK
A site whose aim is ultimately to provide the UK with a huge nutrition support network, enabling those in need to find a nutritionist close to them.
http://www.nutritionist-resource.org.uk