Hearty Lives Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale 
In Rochdale men are 56 per
cent more likely to die early from coronary heart disease than
the national average, and women are 84 per cent more likely to
die early.
Hearty Lives Heywood Middleton & Rochdale is our
£460,000 project to help fight coronary heart disease in the local area. We’ve
teamed up with Rochdale Borough
Council and NHS Heywood,
Middleton & Rochdale to help you to stay healthy.
Our aim
Our three BHF Hearty Lives cardiovascular specialist
nurses, (Sarah McStay, Christine Reade and Ngaire Smith, pictured
above) will be out and about in the community, offering
free health checks and helping you to access free
services that will keep you fit and healthy. Together, they
will:
- work in the most deprived areas of the Rochdale borough to
raise awareness of heart disease
- provide easily accessible health checks and
vascular checks to the local community
- advise those at risk of heart disease about which
services can help.
Bushra Nasreen, BHF community development coordinator says: "We
want people living in the borough of Rochdale to have
the chance to enjoy better lives, to live long enough to
play with their grandchildren and to continue to lead an active,
healthy and fulfilling life well into their later years."
Who we've helped
Sue from Lower Healey had a heart attack seven years
ago. She was fit and active with a good diet, so her heart
attack came completely out of the blue. Sue was at home alone at
the time and experienced a pain in her chest. As she couldn’t
breathe or speak she texted “ambulance quick” to her son who
then called for an ambulance. Sue had a second heart attack
while she was in hospital.
After my heart attack, I was left feeling frightened, confused and in denial. The support I received from my Heart Nurse was second to none
Sue received care and
support from a BHF Heart Nurse, and has given her full backing to
the Hearty Lives Heywood, Middleton & Rochdale
project.
She said: “I think the Hearty Lives programme is vital
to heart patients in the Rochdale area. After I had my
heart attack I was left feeling frightened, confused and in
denial. The support I received from my Heart Nurse, Sue,
was second to none. It was priceless and she was
like a new best friend. Anyone can benefit from this kind of
care, it is essential.”
More info
For more information on our Hearty Lives programme, please
contact Area Development Manager Bushra
Nasreen on nasreenb@bhf.org.uk.