About the report
Heart failure affects nearly a million people across the UK. It's a life-limiting condition that too often causes emergency hospital admissions, poor quality of life and ultimately early death. But it is possible to live well with heart failure and our report offers a blueprint for change in the way we care for people with this condition in the future.
Our report identifies 4 key areas that hold the potential to transform services and improve outcomes and experiences for people living with heart failure.
- Reframing heart failure as a long-term condition
- Focusing on people, not structures
- Driving change with data
- Leading across the pathway
By diagnosing people with heart failure early, getting them the specialist care they need and joining up services, it is possible to cut emergency admissions, improve quality of life and give people the opportunity to live well for longer.
The Covid-19 pandemic has stretched our health services like never before, shining a light on existing inequalities in heart failure care and support. As the NHS across the UK strives to return to delivering routine care, it's vital that heart failure services aren't just 'switched back on' but are built back better. Our report, supported by the British Cardiovascular Society, the British Society for Heart Failure, the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and the Pumping Marvellous Foundation, provides a blueprint for how this can be done, so that everyone with heart failure has the opportunity to live well for longer.
