The Management Team
Colin Davidson is the Executive Director of Heartbeat.
Heartbeat is now a very busy and forward thinking organisation and importantly
the only organisation providing a long term programme of rehabilitation, medically supervised with
patient testing facilities. In providing a very
unique service to the local community in the North West the health of
those patients who have attended our programmes has significantly improved.
The consequence of this has been a saving on much needed NHS funding and
resources. We provide a
service that if not for Heartbeat, would simply not be there. Heartbeat relies totally
on voluntary contributions, fund raising and our own lottery for
finance. We are not funded by Government, Council (to whom we pay
rates) or the NHS. Colin is responsible for the overall Direction, Running and Strategy of the charity.
Dr. R T Parry is the Medical
Director at Heartbeat. We are also very fortunate to have Dr
Khan who is the Consultant Cardiologist from the Royal Preston Hospital as one of our
Patrons. When physical activity is advised many doctors and hospitals such as
Royal Preston NHS Trust, Blackpool Victoria, Chorley & South Ribble hospitals refer patients
to Heartbeat. In addition Heartbeat funds and provides a programme in
Ormskirk. Heartbeat now has 33 medically supervised sessions running
and a further 15 non medical sessions.
Barbara Wilson is our Receptionist and is the Personal Assistant
to the Executive Director. She will probably be your first point of contact and
is very much the focal point in reception . If you want
general information on Heartbeat or events and fund raising activities Barbara will
be able to provide details.
responsible for the day to day running of all
income and expenditure. She reports directly to the Executive Director and our Accountant. She is
responsible for all the monetary procedures and accounts to the Committee.