Heart Failure

NHS Improvement has published this resource to support the implementation of the NICE chronic heart failure quality standard

It is a compilation of information, evidence, guidance and case studies and is suitable for clinicians, managers, service improvement teams and commissioners.

Click on the diagram on the right, or the tabs above to access the resource.

If you have any comments, feedback or additional information, please email Suzanne Whyman or tel: 0116 222 1415.

Latest news

Despite the widespread use of beta blockers in heart failure, approximately one in three patients in sinus rhythm with severely impaired left ventricular function have suboptimal heart rate control (resting heart rate >70 bpm). Find out more...

Top tips for GPs - set of four postcards:

Chronic heart failure: Evidence Update November 2011 - focuses on a summary of selected new evidence relevant to NICE clinical guideline 108 ‘Management of chronic heart failure in adults in primary and secondary care’ (2010).

National projects: Making a difference for your heart failure patients 
  A guide for review and improvement of hospital based heart failure services

Pathways for heart failure care
Making improvements in heart failure services: Final reports from the national pilot sites (2008/10)

 

 

 

Commissioning Patient Pathways Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Quality Standard

 

Walsall Heart Failure Clinic

Tina Fletcher, a heart failure nurse specialist, talks about the Rapid Access Heart Failure Clinic in Walsall.

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Working closely with the Department of Health, trusts, clinical networks, other health sector partners, professional bodies and charities, over the past year it has tested, implemented,sustained and spread quantifiable improvements with over 250 sites across the country aswell as providing an improvement tool to over 800 GP practices.

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