Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s single biggest
killer, over one in three people die from it. Every six minutes
someone dies from a heart attack.
Learning more about your heart condition and ways of managing it
can help you to take control of your own health.
Our cardiac nurses and information officers on the Heart
HelpLine can provide you with the information that can
help to support any medical advice that you have already received
from your GP or consultant.
Call us on 0300 330 3311
lines are open 9am-8pm Monday-Friday,
and 9am-5pm Saturday-Sunday (calls charged at local
rate).
If you would prefer to have your query answered via e-mail
please send it using our online Contact Us form
Genetic Information Service
The Genetic Information
Service offers information and support on inherited
heart conditions.
Call GIS on 0300 456 8383. Lines
are open from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday
(calls charged at local rate).
Can StartHere
help you?
The
StartHere information service is a self-help facility
that links you to a wide range of services that can help when you
have a problem.
It covers a broad range of issues - including
health, caring,
families, education,
employment, benefits,
wellbeing and welfare rights —
giving a brief summary of the topic and signposting you to hundreds
of national organisations, mostly providing free services.
Visit the StartHere website now
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