A home-based rehabilitation programme that could help thousands of people with heart failure to achieve a better quality of life won 'Stroke and Cardiovascular Team' at the prestigious British Medical Journal awards. 

smaller version of BMJ poster for award ceremony

Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) is a 12 week cardiac rehabilitation and self-management programme developed by a team co-led by Professor Rod Taylor of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, and Dr Hayes Dalal of the University of Exeter and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.

The programme was co-designed by clinicians, academics, people with heart failure and their caregivers.

First published: 14 March 2018

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