Cardiac Rehabilitation is an ongoing and evolving area of support for patients with various types of heart disease. The National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation (NACR) collects comprehensive audit data to support the monitoring and improvement of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation services in terms of access, equity in provision, quality and clinical outcomes.
During your Cardiac rehabilitation pathway with Lincolnshire Community Cardiology, your data will be saved onto your own GP records and some of this is then gathered securely onto a NACR online portal provided by NHS England. Please be assured that none of your personal details will be saved or shared in this way.
By inputting data to NACR it helps to secure Lincolnshire Community Cardiology as an Accredited Cardiac Rehabilitation programme. It also helps to promote best practice and improve service provision and quality by influencing future services, examining outcomes across the country and shares data with national bodies like NHS England and National institute for clinical excellence (NICE)
To find out more information about NACR, please follow this link.
A Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) programme starts and ends with an assessment to see how it can be tailored best to help you. Your CR team will give you a questionnaire as part of these assessments and this information is recorded along with information from your clinical assessment with a member of the CR team plus information about why you were referred for CR. This information is also used for the National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation (NACR).
You will be asked to fill in a questionnaire before (Assessment 1) and at the end (Assessment 2) of CR. The reason for collecting the data a second time is to measure what you achieve while attending CR, help set long term goals and, via NACR, help find ways to improve CR programmes and CR service provision both nationally and locally.
CR information is entered onto a database in the hospital and this is treated with the same level of confidentiality as all information you provide to your healthcare team.
The data is collected by Clinical Audit, NHS England (formerly NHS Digital) who hold data and information relating to health and social care (Clinical Audit, NHS England ). They remove identifiable information and send it to the Cardiovascular Health Research Group at the University of York, who use the data for national, regional and local reports, and provide data for NHS England and other health organisations. You can see reports that have been published via the link below:
NACR does not hold any personally identifiable data which means it will not share any personal data with any other person or organisation. Data, with patient identifiers removed, collected by NACR is used to assess the quality of CR, to improve service provision and clarify which factors determine the success of CR.
For further information please see our Privacy Policy
The hospital and CR staff who treat you, and approved staff at Clinical Audit, NHS England if necessary. NACR staff at the University of York see the same information but with all identifying information - Name/NHS Number/Date of Birth/Address - removed so they don’t know who it is from.
We know that not everyone is comfortable with their information being used in this way. If you are happy for your information to be used, you do not need to do anything. If you do not want your information to be used for NACR, you need to tell Clinical Audit, NHS England Enquiries team: enquiries
Choosing not to be included in NACR will not affect your care.
