Exercise delivery and functional assessment completion by job title across cardiac, respiratory, stroke, falls and cancer services in the UK
| Job title | Cardiac services | Respiratory services | Stroke services | Falls services | Cancer services |
| n=216 | n=162 | n=129 | n=117 | n=107 | |
| Combinations of exercise deliverers (% and number of services) | |||||
| Physiotherapist | 38% (n=83) | 57% (n=93) | – | 5% (n=6) | 11% (n=10) |
| Physiotherapist and exercise physiologist | 1% (n=2) | – | – | – | – |
| Physiotherapist and exercise instructor | 13% (n=27) | 17% (n=28) | – | 5% (n=6) | 6% (n=6) |
| Physiotherapist and OT | – | 13% (n=21) | 95% (n=123) | 75% (n=88) | 4% (n=4) |
| Physiotherapist, OT and exercise instructor | – | – | 5% (n=6) | – | – |
| Specialist nurse | 4% (n=9) | – | – | – | – |
| Exercise physiologist | 11% (n=23) | 7% (n=11) | – | – | 1% (n=1) |
| Exercise instructor | 30% (n=65) | 6% (n=9) | – | 15% (n=17) | 79% (n=84) |
| Exercise physiologist and instructor | 3% (n=7) | – | – | – | 2% (n=2) |
| Assessments completed by (%) | |||||
| Physiotherapist | 54% (n=117) | 85% (n=138) | 84% (n=108) | 94% (n=110) | 22% (n=24) |
| Nurse | 20% (n=43) | 5% (n=8) | – | – | 4% (n=4) |
| Occupational therapists | – | – | 16% (n=21) | 35 (n=4) | – |
| Exercise physiologist | 13% (n=28) | 7% (n=11) | – | – | 1% (n=1) |
| Exercise instructor | 13% (n=28) | 3% (n=5) | – | 3% (n=4) | 73% (n=78) |