Appointments
Cardiovascular rehabilitation
Your appointment may be:
How to get an appointment
You can ask your GP or other health professional to refer you.
You can also self-refer. Please contact us.
Changing or cancelling your appointment
Phone: 020 7188 0946
If you do not come to your appointment without telling us, we'll try and contact you. If we can not contact you, you'll be discharged back to the person who referred you.
Before your appointment
We'll send you a text message to let you know when and where you need to go for face-to-face appointments.
We'll arrange a date and time with you if you're having a telephone or video appointment.
Assessment clinic
Before you start the programme, we'll see you at our assessment clinic.
You'll meet members of our team, including:
- a nurse
- an exercise specialist
We'll assess your health and identify any ongoing problems. We may ask you to do a short fitness assessment. This allows us to check your fitness and ability to exercise. We can then prescribe the most suitable level of exercise for you.
Please bring:
- the completed questionnaire we sent you before your appointment
- a list of medicines you take
- water
- closed footwear – flat soled shoes or trainers
Following your assessment, we'll give you dates to start your rehabilitation programme.
Rehabilitation programme
The programme lasts 8 weeks. The face-to-face programme is at St Thomas' Hospital on a Tuesday or Thursday morning, 10am to midday. We also offer a remote programme.
At your assessment, we'll discuss the best choice of programme with you.
Exercise classes
Please bring:
- water
- clothes you feel comfortable exercising in and trainers or shoes with flat soles
- glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) spray and inhalers if you use these
- blood glucose testing kit if you're diabetic and advised to test
Please be advised there are limited changing or showering facilities.
The exercise sessions are group classes and are based on your individual assessment. They will include using some exercise equipment. Sessions last for 1 hour and include a warm-up, conditioning component and cool-down.
For your first session, please arrive 30 minutes before the class starts. This is so we can introduce you to the exercises.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, exercise is followed by an education and/or relaxation session. This gives you an opportunity to:
- try different relaxation techniques
- gain more knowledge about your condition
After the programme
When you have finished the programme, we'll send a discharge letter to you and your GP.
Last updated: February 2024
