What is Hope for Hearts?
Hope for Hearts aimed to transform the way that millions of people affected by heart failure were cared for. We encouraged innovators from all sectors to partner with heart failure specialists and patients to help develop and implement new ideas for old problems.
We sought applications for projects to test and evaluate innovative approaches to deliver better heart failure care and services. We sought ideas and projects which would:
- transform how people with heart failure experience care
- use technology to radically improve the way services are designed and delivered
- introduce simple changes that could lead to huge impact.
Through Hope for Hearts, BHF awarded over £682,000 to fund 4 heart failure projects. The projects focused on differing areas of need and care for heart failure patients.
Our individual projects
We have delivered a range of projects to help increase the support and care available for people affected by heart failure. These include:
- automated MRI imaging for better patient care
- MRI My Pacemaker
- Digital REACH-HF cardiac rehabilitation platform for heart failure patients
- a holistic patient-centred intervention to improve outcomes of older people living with frailty and chronic heart failure (project summary and webpage in development).
Why focus on heart failure?
The following figures highlight why Hope for Hearts focused on heart failure as a priority:
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there are 920,000 people living with heart failure
- around 340,000 of these are not registered on their GP's heart failure register
- more than 100,000 hospital admissions a year are attributable to heart failure, and this is set to rise.
What is heart failure?
This animation explains what heart failure is, including its causes and symptoms, and shows the impact that heart failure can have on a person’s life.