Professor Brendan McAdam:

The under-resourcing of rehabilitation has been going on for nearly 15 years. As Dr. Smyth said, there has been a chronic shortage of staff. In 2021, one of the rehab centres did an audit and found that 50% of rehab centres had no administrative support, 50% had no pharmacy and 50% had no dietician. The multidisciplinary aspect of cardiac rehabilitation has been eroded for years and needs to be addressed urgently by a new cardiovascular strategy.