September 14, 2012

Our life-saving resources receive prestigious awards

We’re celebrating after two of our life-saving resources received a British Medical Association (BMA) Patient Information Award. The awards are designed to recognise accessible, well designed patient information.

Our prize-winning resources

CPKOur Chest Pain Kit won the Innovation Award. The kit is a fantastic interactive training resource and contains everything trainers need to raise awareness of heart attack signs and symptoms, what to do if people are experiencing these symptoms and overcoming barriers to phoning 999.

It's designed for people working in community resuscitation, community first aid responders and health promoters. The contents are highly flexible and can be tailored to any audience and situation.

Straight from the heartOur Straight from the Heart resource which was created in conjunction with the Children’s Heart Federation won the Long Term Conditions award.

It's designed for teenagers with heart conditions and aims to answer all of their questions about their stay in hospital. Many young people and heart experts were involved in creating the booklet which explains more about the treatments, what a hospital stay involves, overcoming the fear of an operation and how to get back to normal afterwards.

We were also shortlisted for our One step at a time - living with heart failure DVD. The DVD features six people telling you how they felt when they were told they had heart failure. They tell you about some of the small changes they made to help them live normal lives and the DVD includes vital advice from our medical experts.

We need your help

With your donations we are able to create a huge range of resources to help you and your family live a heart-healthy lifestyle, or if you or a loved one has a heart condition.

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