We’re working to make heart failure a national priority.

Our strategy

Over the last 27 years we’ve been supporting health professionals to change the trajectory of heart failure in the UK. Over 1 million people in the UK have heart failure and an estimated further 400,000 have undiagnosed heart failure, and these numbers are on the rise.

Heart failure currently takes 2% of the NHS budget, yet awareness and understanding across society are low.

Find out more about the work we do to raise awareness and encourage earlier diagnosis and treatment. Together we can save thousands of lives each year and ease pressure on our healthcare system.

Our Vision for the future is that heart failure is seen as a national priority, resourcing in the NHS has increased signficiantly, society is widely aware of the symptoms of heart failure and undiagnosed and late diagnosis heart failure is dramatically reduced.

Our priorities

They outline our areas of focus and the work we do to achieve our mission

  • Equipping healthcare professionals with up-to-date specialist education and research, input to national curriculum, networking opportunities and membership benefits.

  • Educating health professionals to prevent, better diagnose and treat heart failure, supported by evidence. Promotion of heart failure research and support for early career researchers.

  • Influencing change by engaging and motivating those in power to improve services and outcomes for heart failure patients.

  • Developing our charity to progress our mission, through robust governance, strong finances, partnership working and effective people.

  • Preventing avoidable deaths from heart failure through awareness and early intervention and increased heart failure staff resource.

Get in touch

As a representative charity, feedback from our members working across the healthcare sector is vital to guiding our work. We will launch our new strategic plan next year and we want to hear your views on where we should focus.