National Clinical Programme for Heart Failure

Aim

To improve quality of life of patients

Quality

• Every patient with heart failure is managed within a structured programme
• Implement targeted programme to prevent heart failure

Access

• Every patient with symptoms of heart failure is diagnosed correctly and without delay

Cost

• Reduce recurrent admissions by 1,000 with additional impact on de novo admissions
• Reduce length of stay saving 20,000 hospital days per year

Poster Presentation: Heart Failure

• Implementation of the new national Heart Failure Model of Care document, in conjunction with the ESC Heart Failure guidelines
• Implementation of the Heart Failure programme in a further 5 sites by end of 2012

Working Group

Project Team Membership:Prof. Ken McDonald, Clinical Lead; Dr. Joe Gallagher, GP Lead, Dr. David Weakliam, Consultant in Public Health Medicine; Regina Black, Programme Manager; Paul Marsden, Researcher; Dr. Mark Ledwidge, Research Director; Gillian Conway, Nursing Service Planner; Bronagh Travers, Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Dr. Siobhan Jennings, Specialist in Public Health Medicine. 

Working Group Membership (in addition to the project team members above): Aoife McCarthy, Allied Health Professionals Rep (Dietician); Catherine Dwyer, Cardiac Physiologist; Evelyn Healy, Allied Health Professionals Rep (Dietician); Karen Cradock, Allied Health Professionals Rep (Physiotherapy); Kathy McSharry, Practice Nurse Development Coordinator; Margaret Bermingham, Pharmacy Liaison; Sinead McCool, Pharmacy Liaison and Siobhan Sinnott.