What is Hope for Hearts?
Hope for Hearts aimed to transform the way the 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
- And introduce simple changes that could lead to huge impact
Through Hope for Hearts the British Heart Foundation awarded over £682,000 across to fund four heart failure projects which focussed 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 MyPacemaker
- 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?
920,000 people in the UK are living with heart failure, with around 340,000 of them not registered on their GP's heart failure register. There are more than 100,000 hospital admission each year attributable to heart failure, and this is set to rise.
There is considerable variation across the UK in access to evidence-based pathways for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. Through Hope for Hearts, BHF aimed to address some of this variation.
Heart failure resources
Order free printed information about the diagnosis and management of heart failure.
Heart failure: a blueprint for change
Our report sets out a blueprint for change, with the right care and support provided so that people can live well with heart failure for longer.
The latest research
Our research has created treatments to give people with heart failure longer, healthier lives. But there’s currently no cure other than heart transplant. We’re working to change that.