We have significantly increased access to digital mental health treatments, products and services since the first cCBT treatment was rolled out in 2017. We now have 27 different computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) treatments available across all NHS Boards. This includes the tool ‘Space in Coronary Heart Disease’.

Through delivery of the Heart Disease Action Plan, we have worked with five health boards to encourage their utilisation of this tool within cardiac rehab services. We are in the process of evaluating this to support further adoption within cardiac services.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-14676 on 6 March 2023. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

In order to provide a wide-range of rehabilitation approaches, a skilled workforce is required that spans health, social care and third and independent sectors. The workforce brings a range of skills that can vary across sector and by background.

Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) make up a significant proportion of the rehabilitation workforce. The AHP Education and Workforce Policy Review considered the actions necessary to deliver a national education and workforce plan for AHPs. This has now been completed. The recommendations will be published early 2023 and an implementation plan will be developed thereafter.

In September, NHS Education for Scotland and the Scottish Government hosted a webinar on ‘Delivering a Person-Centred Approach to Rehabilitation in a Post-COVID era’. The webinar formed part of Scottish Government’s work to raise awareness of the Once for Scotland Person-Centred Approach to Rehabilitation. More than 1,000 people with an interest in rehabilitation took part.

We provide information and resources on the use of Anticipatory Care Plans to professionals, patients, and their families to ensure people get the right care in the right place at the right time. In 2021, Healthcare Improvement Scotland developed the Anticipatory Care Planning Toolkit consisting of a 4-step model, guidance, and resources for health professionals.

NHS Education for Scotland has educational resources for professionals delivering training about shared decision-making and anticipatory care planning (Realistic Conversations).

The Heart Failure Hub has endorsed, and is supporting the dissemination of, Patient and Health Care Professional Cardiac Supportive Palliative Care resources developed by the British Society for Heart Failure - Patient info and HCP resources — British Society For Heart Failure (bsh.org.uk)

Delivery of this action is a long term objective of the plan. The National Heart Disease Task Force will consider the prioritisation of work to be undertaken in 2023-24 as part of our ongoing implementation of the commitments within the Heart Disease Action Plan.

In April 2021, Scottish Government commissioned Public Health Scotland to develop and deliver the Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme. This programme will support delivery against the actions in Priority 4 of the Heart Disease Action Plan.

We also commissioned the ALLIANCE to deliver the Heart Disease Lived Experience Network. The Scottish Cardiac Audit Programme has engaged closely with the network to ensure that people with lived experience of heart disease have influenced the development of indicators.

Scale Up BP, delivered by the Technology Enabled Care team, has been a successful programme supporting remote monitoring for diagnosis and ongoing management of high blood pressure. Evaluation has shown a positive impact on reductions in blood pressure. The programme continues with the majority of health boards now utilising the tool.

Investment has been made in the national remote monitoring solution, which is available to all Health Boards and Health & Social Care Partnerships. This includes Scale Up BP and a remote monitoring tool for Heart Failure.

There have been two pieces of work carried out in relation to training and education for the wider Healthcare Science professional group of which cardiac physiology is one specialty. The baseline exercise Healthcare science - education and training provision: baseline review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) has provided an overview of the education and training landscape for Healthcare Science.

The outcomes of this work has informed the context of the scoping review committed to within the National Workforce strategy 2022. Recommendations have been made as to the next steps and once confirmed these will be shared with the wider stakeholder groups.

a) The Rehabilitation and Recovery: A Once for Scotland Person-Centred Approach to Rehabilitation in a Post-COVID Era was published in June 2022 and provides a framework to deliver person-centred, innovative and inclusive rehabilitation to all.

The Once for Scotland approach recommends that all individuals should have access to a person-centred assessment, which will provide a better understanding of their rehabilitation needs.

As this work now moves into an implementation phase, rehabilitation services are encouraged to benchmark themselves against the Six Principles of Good Rehabilitation in order to identify gaps in service provision and opportunity for development and innovation.

b)Through the Heart Disease Action Plan funding call in 2021 we provided funding for the development of a self-management resource for people with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.