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Help and advice on heart disease

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  • How your heart works
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Want to stop smoking?

Nicotine patch

Stopping smoking is the single best thing you can do for your heart health.

Help to stop smoking

How we help

Call our Heart helpline on 0300 330 3311

Heart Matters
Heartstart UK
Heart Support Groups
Health at Work
Hearty Lives

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Help us keep hearts beating

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London to Brighton Night Ride

L2B Night Ride - rider on beach

Use your pedal power to fight against heart disease – sign up to London to Brighton Night Ride.

Register now

Mending Broken Hearts Appeal

Mending Broken Hearts Appeal

Support our groundbreaking research and help us find a cure for heart failure.

Mending Broken Hearts Appeal

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Cycling Jerseys

Get ready for the London to Brighton bike ride with one of our new cycling jerseys.

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Book a free collection

BHF shop

We'll collect your unwanted furniture and electrical goods to sell in our stores.

Book a free collection
Research

Our pioneering research

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  • Our heart research
  • Where we fund research
  • Our science image competition
  • Help us mend broken hearts
  • Information for researchers
  • Researcher noticeboard
  • Heart statistics

Fighting for every heartbeat

Professor Mark Kearney

Learn how we're fighting for every heartbeat with cutting-edge heart research.

Find out more

Apply for a research grant

Research

Information for researchers
Apply for a research grant
Researcher noticeboard

Community

Share experiences with others

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  • Share your story
In your area

Heart Town launch in Bromley

We're working with UK towns and cities to get communities heart healthy.

Find out about Heart Towns

Our online community

Our online community

Share experiences, stories, tips and ideas in our community.

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About BHF

Our fight for every heartbeat

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  • Who we work with
  • Where we are
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  • Our history
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The story so far

50 years of heart health

Explore 50 years of the fight against heart disease and find out where we're going in the future.

Explore our timeline

What we do

What we do

We fund thousands of research projects around the UK that are fighting heart disease.

Learn about our vital work

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Types of healthcare professionals

  • Heart failure specialist nurses
  • Paediatric and GUCH nurses
  • Arrhythmia nurses
  • Genetic nurses
  • Heart failure palliative care nurses
  • Community Resuscitation Development Officer
  • Diagnostic healthcare professionals

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Types of healthcare professionals

There are many types of healthcare professionals you may come across as part of your treatment.

Some of the healthcare professionals we support include:

  • Heart failure specialist nurses
  • Paediatric cardiac liaison nurses
  • GUCH (grown-ups with congenital heart disease) nurses
  • Arrhythmia specialist nurses
  • Genetic cardiac specialist nurses
  • Heart failure palliative care specialist nurses
  • Community resuscitation development officers
  • Cardiac physiologists
  • Echo technicians 
  • Acute coronary syndrome nurses
  • Bereavement counsellors
  • Pharmacists
  • Cardiac liaison nurses
  • Cardiac rehabilitation nurses
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British Heart Foundation is a registered Charity No. 225971. Registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England & Wales No. 699547.
Registered office at Greater London House, 180 Hampstead Road, London NW1 7AW. Registered as a Charity in Scotland No. SC039426