Table 2.

Perceived barriers to offering rehabilitation from centres that indicated they routinely offer cardiac rehabilitation in heart failure (n=90)

Reason cited	Number of centres (%)
Lack of resources	29 (32)
No contract for heart failure	16 (18)
Heart failure specialist nurse already meets cardiac rehabilitation need	14 (16)
Lack of referrals from heart failure service clinicians	11 (12)
Patients go to another cardiac rehabilitation programme in area	9 (10)
Not confident in having the correct skill mix	8 (9)