We attempted to obtain information on each cardiac and lung rehabilitation programme in England in two ways: an e-mail/internet survey sent to all programme managers and an internet search of programme websites. For the former, we designed a questionnaire, in part based on the existing national audits that ran during 2015, but ensuring that we also asked for information that was not included in those audits. To obtain their co-operation, we waited until after the audit cycles were completed. Our questionnaires and two reminders were then distributed by the national audit co-ordinators to all units registered with them. This asked for the type of patient accepted onto the programme, the length of the programme, how it was staffed and what types of care were offered, for example exercise, education, anxiety and self-management tools. For the latter, we searched for the website of each registered programme to obtain its postcode (to enable calculation of the as-the-crow-flies distance between each patient and the nearest programme) and find out whether or not it provided patient information specific to the programme (rather than simply more generally about the trust, for example), further links for patients, programme acceptance criteria and contact details.
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