- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- General
- Self Management
- Exercise
- Sexual Activity
- Diet
- Practical
- Work
- Driving
- Insurance
- Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Support for Carers
- Relaxation
- Spiritual Care
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Peer Support
- Brain Injuries
- Inherited Conditions
- Death & Dying
- Planning Care
- Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Practical Issues
- Bereavement
- Miscellaneous
- Organisations
- Strategies
- Responding
- AEDs
Cardiac Rehabilitation
General
- Cardiac Rehabilitation: Programme finder Scotland (PDF)
- British Heart Foundation: Cardiac rehabilitation
- British Heart Foundation: Cardiac rehabilitation: Your questions answered
- SIGN: SIGN 150: Cardiac rehabilitation
Self Management
- NHS: The Self Care Toolkit: ….is for people who live with persistent health conditions
- NHS Lothian: The heart manual
Exercise
- East Cheshire NHS Trust: Cardiac rehabilitation exercise video – from the Cardiac Rehab Team (YouTube)
Sexual Activity
- Heart failure matters: Sex and heart failure
- CHSS: Living with your chest condition: Sex and intimate relationships
- CHSS: Living with your heart condition: Your sex life
- Relationships Scotland: I’m having sex problems
- Sexual Advice Association can be contacted on 020 7486 7262 or email: info@sexualadviceassociation.co.uk
Diet
Practical
- Work:
- Driving:
- Insurance:
Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Moodjuice
- Living Life to the Full
- Breathing Space: Open up when you”re feeling down
- CHSS: Coping with depression and feeling down
- CHSS: Coping with stress and anxiety
- NHS Choices: Mindfulness
- NHS Choices: Depression
- Mind, the mental health charity: What is CBT? | Making Sense of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (YouTube)
- Living Life to the Full
Support for Carers
Relaxation
- Healthy Place America’s Mental Health Channel: Relaxation Therapy for Anxiety Disorders (NB you need to scroll quite far down before reaching content on relaxation strategies.)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: Relaxation Techniques for Health
- Patient: Relaxation Exercises and Mindfulness
Spiritual Care
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Peer Support
A number of regional cardiac peer support groups are available in Scotland. Information on these can be obtained from the Chest Heart & Stroke Advice Line Nurses:
- Freephone: 0808 801 0899
- Email: adviceline@chss.org.uk
- Text: NURSE to 66777
Brain Injuries
- Edinburgh Headway
- Headway: Caring for someone with a brain injury
- Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT)
- Synapse: Reconnecting lives: Impact of brain injury on families & carers
Inherited Conditions
- Familial Arrhythmia Network Scotland
- Cardiac Risk in the Young
- Arrhythmia Alliance
- Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: British Heart Foundation: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
Death & Dying
Planning Care
- Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief
- Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief – Making an Anticipatory Care Plan
- Scottish Government: Anticipatory Care Planning: Frequently Asked Questions
- NHS Highland Anticipatory Care Patient Alert (ACPA) Form Pack [PDF]
- Dying Matters: The resuscitation conversation
Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Scottish Government, 2016:Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Integrated Adult Policy
- Respect: Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care & Treatment
Practical Issues
- CRUSE Bereavement Care Scotland
- Scottish Government: What to do when some after a death in Scotland: practical advice at times of bereavement
- Crown Office and Proculator Fiscal Service: Information for bereaved relatives; the role of the PF in the investigation of deaths (PDF)
- Directory of all UK Funeral Directors & Undertakers
Bereavement
- NHS Choices Dealing with Grief and Loss
- Moodjuice: Bereavement self-help guide
- CRUSE Bereavement Care Scotland
- NHS Education for Scotland: Support Around Death Scotland
Miscellaneous
Organisations
- Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
- Scottish Ambulance Service
- Scottish Ambulance Service – Community First Responders
- Scottish Fire & Rescue Services
- BASICS Scotland
- Save a Life Scotland
- Resuscitation Council UK
- Scottish Government: Health and Social Care
- NHS Education for Scotland
- CRUSE Bereavement Care Scotland
- Emergency Medical Research Group Edinburgh
- SIGN Guidelines
- Familial Arrhythmia Network Scotland
- Cardiac Risk in the Young
- Arrhythmia Alliance
- Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors
- British Society for Genetic Medicine
- Diabetes UK
Strategies
- Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Strategy for Scotland (PDF)
- Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Strategy for Scotland: Review 2015/16 [.pdf]