Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that survivors of cardiac arrest can access an individual post-cardiac arrest rehabilitation plan.

Improving access to cardiac rehabilitation is a priority of the NHS Long Term Plan. In 2023/24 NHS England will provide funding to improve access to cardiac rehabilitation services, including the provision of different modes of delivery to enable individual post-cardiac arrest rehabilitation plans. In addition, all patients in England with heart disease will be better supported by multi-disciplinary teams as part of primary care networks. NHS England are working to support patients with heart failure in the community through the roll-out of the NHS Managing Heart Failure @home. This scheme aims to support people living with heart failure to self-manage in their own home through patient education and remote monitoring. Cardiac arrest survivors will require different pathways depending on the severity of the damage caused by the cardiac arrest. Patients discharged from secondary care will receive cardiac rehabilitation services which are available in every region. For more severe cases of cardiac arrest there are Level 1 & 2 specialist inpatient rehabilitation services. NHS England are committed to improving these services and are working with charities and other bodies to further develop these rehabilitation pathways for patients.