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) |