About Heart Care (Walsall & Streetly)
Heart Care is a small much loved local charity that provides rehabilitation to people suffering from heart and lung diseases. Heart Care provides free 3 and 2 month tailored programmes and then long term Aftercare indefinitely. These programmes consist of monitored exercise in our lovely purpose built gym, expert advice on diet & nutrition, lifestyle advice and emotional help through relaxation classes and counselling sessions. We help around 1000 people a year, many of whom are older in their 60's,70's, 80's and beyond. The areas that we serve (Walsall and the surrounding area) are socially deprived and this often leads to higher rates of ill health including heart disease. Put simply Heart Care is helping save and improve older vulnerable people’s lives in our community.
Our staff are made up of nurses, exercise physiologists, health care assistants and a part time doctor who all ensure that patients have the very best chance of recovery from their health conditions. Patients (and their families) are often frightened and traumatised when they come to us. Our
staff are professional, friendly and work hard at making patients feel comfortable and showing them that they can get their lives back on track again and return to a normal active life with their confidence restored.
www.heartcare.org.uk
rina.guddu@walsall.nhs.uk
Heart Care (Walsall & Streetly) Registered charity number 1109021
