Heart Helpline

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).

Start Here logoCan 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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