Research priorities

Helping drive innovation through heart failure research.

As the national organisation for heart failure professionals, we aim to facilitate breakthroughs and connect specialists to advance heart failure research.

We have a Research Forum made up of heart failure professionals. They help set the strategic research priorities of the BSH. The Research Forum focuses on promoting high quality research into heart failure and acting as a catalyst for research activity.

Find out more about the work of our Research Forum.

Our strategic priorities for 2026-30 are shown below. You can read our full strategic plan here.

Research pipeline

We aim to cultivate fellowships and mentorship programmes to support professional growth and leadership development in research for all disciplines and career stages

Advancement

We help enhance research innovation across the UK by supporting widening participation, recruitment, endorsing and amplifying projects across all stakeholder groups, contributing to the heart failure evidence base.

Focus on modern priorities

We collaborate with allied organisations and researchers to support efficient, impactful, and collaborative research including AI, digital advances, health inequalities and wider determinants of health.

Focus on prevention & detection

We collaborate on innovative research opportunities aimed at preventing new cases and increase research associated with heart failure case detection and diagnostic pathways for the whole MDT community.