Asking for advice as my parents are a bit lost. Is there a checklist on NICE or somewhere else about what should happen after cardiac surgery.
My father had a triple bypass super quickly under his health insurance which felt like a real stroke of luck after lots of unexplained ill health which turned out to have been undiagnosed heart attacks.
He is now five weeks post op and we are wondering what he should expect in terms of physio, rehab or assessment.
They are happy to pay or go via GP but no one will tell them anything and my ma has been spending hours trying to ring up various leads to see if anyone can tell her what he should be doing. They went to the suggested post 6 week rehab clinic yesterday to have a look but were told off as he should have had some sort of check up weeks ago.
His aftercare has been shocking and he seems to have fallen between the cracks.
His GP won’t give advice as he was operated on in a different area at the private hospital. The private hospital are really useless and they can’t speak to clinical staff there when they call , only people who read the information off the website to them and who can’t answer questions.
I would be really grateful for any suggestions. Particularly if they are a website that my ma can print off and wave at them or use specific phrasing so that people understand what my dad needs.
He is really glum and fragile and keen to recover the “right” way.
Or should they hire a private physio to come daily to help him do rehab exercises? At this point I think they would try pretty much anything.
TLDR: what should post cardiac op patients expect from healthcare for the next 8 weeks or so?
Thank you!