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Find out how science will help improve treatment for chest pain with world-leading expert Dr Rasha Al-Lamee.

A message from our Chief Executive, Dr Charmaine Griffiths, on what we are doing to support those who need it most during the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis, and the steps we're taking to protect our life saving work.

Nearly 100,000 more people with cardiovascular disease than expected have died since the start of the pandemic in England, according to our analysis published today.

British Heart Foundation shops are now closed in Tier 4 parts of England and across Wales and will continue to close on Christmas Eve in Northern Ireland, Scotland and areas in England entering Tier 4 on Boxing Day, in line with Government restrictions around non-essential retail

A Cambridge librarian has spoken about how a wearable heart monitor, fitted after visiting A&E due to unexplained fainting, helped doctors quickly spot his life-threatening heart problem.

BHF partners with the Alan Turing Institute to tackle heart disease and stroke using artificial intelligence.

Heart treatments given to patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy do not protect them, according to the first ever study to compare these patients with heart attack patients and the general population over more than 5 years. The results of the study, funded by us, have been published today in the journal JACC: Advances.

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Date

04 October 2026

Location

Manchester

The Manchester Half starts and finishes in Old Trafford with over 24,000 participants. Join Team BHF!

We've partnered with the British Cardiovascular Society to carry out a census of the cardiac workforce in England.

Patients are at the heart of our work, and it's more important than ever that we put them first. That's why we've launched a new programme, Patients First, which is our number one organisational priority during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.