Podcast Series

Tune in to our latest podcast series featuring our Committee members and guest speakers from the world of heart failure.

Iron – do we really understand it? Listen to this wide-ranging expert debate between Professors Andrew Clark and Toby Richards discussing the challenges of iron deficiency and heart failure, and the new science that will guide future thinking.

Listen to the latest podcast with Maggie Simpson, BSH Education Committee member, interviewing Dr Sue Piper, Consultant Cardiologist, Kings College Hospital NHS Trust, London, discussing iron deficiency in heart failure.

People with heart failure often present with breathlessness. Many patients are misdiagnosed with a respiratory illness before heart failure is investigated, but is it as simple/binary as that?  Listen to this informative discussion between Dr Sunny Kaul, Lead Respiratory Consultant at Harefield Hospital, and Laurence Humphreys-Davies, discussing the challenges of breathlessness and heart failure, from both a clinical and patient perspective.

What makes heart failure patients get admitted to hospital? Up to 75% can be due to other comorbidities, so how do we ensure we respond and optimise outcomes?   Dr Rajiv Sankaranarayanan, heart failure consultant and NIHR research fellow at Liverpool NHS Foundation Trust shares his experience of setting up a 1 stop service, the ‘Cardiorenal MDT’.

Listen to the podcast with Maggie Simpson, BSH Education Committee member, interviewing Dr Jim Moore, GPSI in Cardiology, President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) and Observer to the BSH Board and Bev Bostock, Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Editor in Chief of Practice Nurse Journal, discussing primary care as the first frontier for detection and management of heart failure.

Listen to the latest podcast from the British Society for Heart Failure with Maggie Simpson, BSH Education Committee member, interviewing Patient Advocate’s Pauline O’Shea, Ireland and Robbie Panton, Scotland and discussing heart failure from the patient perspective.