We work closely with the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board’s cardiac rehab service to support and encourage heart patients to continue the healthy behaviours promoted through hospital-based cardiac rehab programmes and heart failure clinics.  

The British Heart Foundation is the biggest independent funder of research into cardiovascular disease in the UK. It’s also a brilliant resource for all your heart health questions – big or small.

Based at St Woolos Hospital in Newport, the Gwent Cardiac Rehabilitation Trust Fund is a registered charity dedicated to supporting hospital and community-based cardiac rehab programmes across the Gwent region. 

Our organisations share many of the same goals and our work is complementary. So while we focus on providing community-based cardiac rehab exercise classes, our colleagues at the Trust Fund concentrate on raising money for training and vital equipment for cardiac rehab services. Together, we’re helping people across Gwent to regain their quality of life following a heart diagnosis.

Gwent Defibbers is a support group for people who have had an Implantable Defibrillator (ICD or CRT-D) device fitted to detect and treat dangerous heart arrhythmias. The group holds regular meetings and offers a safe space for patients and their families to ask questions, express fears and anxieties and to learn more about the devices and their health, so they can enjoy a better quality of life.

Heart UK is the UK’s only cholesterol charity, providing support and information for families and health professionals. It aims to help people to know and understand their cholesterol and other blood fat (lipid) levels so they can take appropriate action.

Pumping Marvellous is the UK’s heart failure charity, offering support and resources to help people understand and live well with heart failure.