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The Heart Manual NHS Lothian | Our Services

On the Post MI Digital Manuals you can now access the REACH Deck accessibility tools.

Tools include:

And so much more…

Click here to check it out on the Post MI Digital Manual Website

Spaces now available for the 2024/2025 Training Sessions

Training available vis Microsoft Teams

Contact heart.manual@nhs.scot for further information.

Emerging from the pandemic, NHS centres UK wide have learnt that people need to have flexibility and choice in how and when they access cardiac rehabilitation. Cardiac rehabilitation guidelines now advocate this in order to meet required certified programme standards. The Heart Manual clinical team has and continues to provide extensive facilitator training enabling services to provide this choice by offering the Heart Manual Programme in their areas. This highly evidenced programme can be offered in paper or digital formats depending on patient preference.

The Heart Manual Department is a well established NHS service providing evidence-based programmes for individuals recovering from myocardial infarction, revascularisation, and cancer. Our programmes are facilitated by specially trained clinicians worldwide to individually tailor the programme and support patients’ understanding and management of their condition.

“…the UK Heart Manual (NHS Lothian) is perhaps the most extensively studied self-management book for patients recovering from acute MI or coronary revascularization.”

Scientific Statement from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology 2019

We are proud to work with colleagues in the public sector, academic institutes and organisations to support the recovery of many individuals across the UK and worldwide. See our patient and facilitator testimonials.

“Facilitated home based options such as the Heart Manual are proven to work”

The National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation, 2016

Evidence of the Heart Manual Programmes have been published in notable journals, such as:


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