Hearts & Souls are proud to congratulate the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust cardiac rehabilition team on achieving the Green certified status award by the BACPR (British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation).
The Green Status Certification is a national quality mark awarded to cardiac rehabilitation programmes that successfully meet all seven key performance indicators set by the National Certification Programme for Cardiac Rehabilitation.
What is Green Status?
- Full Certification: Achieved by meeting all 7 minimum standards and key performance indicators.
- Other Tiers: Programmes are categorized as Amber (meeting 4–6 standards), Red (meeting 1–3 standards), or Fail (meeting 0 or failing to submit data).
- Validation: Teams must complete and submit annual National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation surveys and data to validate their status.
Key Performance Areas: to attain Green Status, cardiac rehabilitation services must hit targets across seven specific operational domains:
- Adequate and appropriate multidisciplinary team staffing profiles.
- Reaching the correct target patient groups.
- Maintaining appropriate waiting times for access.
- Delivering proper programme duration.
- Ensuring the thorough completion of initial and final patient assessments.
- Consistent data submission to the national audit database.
Cardiac Rehab team lead nurse Lisa said in response to receiving this honour “We are all super proud of this achievement (only 60% of programmes achieve green status) and it is a reflection of everyone’s hard work and commitment and I think having Hearts & Souls support is also fundamental to this. So thank you for your ongoing support”.
