Basingstoke & Alton Cardiac Rehabilitation Centre

General information

Basingstoke & Alton Cardiac Rehabilitation Charity ("Cardiac Rehab") helps residents of north, east and mid Hampshire (and the surrounding areas) to recover and then maintain their health and fitness after heart attacks and heart operations.

Our services revolve around a gym in which are run exercise sessions for the purpose of cardiac rehabilitation, exclusively for people referred in from hospitals, GPs and other health professionals. As specialists in our field we provide an exercise environment that is safe, secure, unintimidating and friendly. We provide:

- Facilities for an NHS clinical team to run Phase III cardiac rehabilitation courses for patients discharged from the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke (and from other hospitals on request). The hospital also runs a Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic from our site.
- Our own Phase IV cardiac rehabilitation "continuing exercise" sessions, open to anyone referred to us by a health professional. Clients travel to us from within an approximate 20 mile radius, including from Basingstoke, Winchester, Farnham, Petersfield and Fleet, and often exercise regularly with us for years. We run over 40 hours of classes per week and have over 20,000 client attendances per year. These exercise sessions are also attended by people on our Staywell Scheme for the primary prevention of heart disease.

All of our exercise instructors are qualified to standards set by the British Association for Cardiac Prevention & Rehabilitation (BACPR Phase IV) and all staff at the Centre are trained in cardiac resuscitation techniques.

It costs over £350,000 each year to run and support the Cardiac Rehab Centre. To help meet these costs we must raise over £250,000 each year through donations, fundraising events and similar.

At the Centre we have meeting rooms available for hire. For more information click the link below;
http://www.cardiac-rehab.co.uk/facilities.php