Welcome to our latest update as we approach a busy end to 2025! As always there are opportunities for you to get involved, so please read this update in full and let us know if you have questions about our campaigns.

NT-proBNP availability in Community Diagnostic Centres

Following meetings with NHS England, we have responded to a consultation on the future of Community Diagnostic Centres and how they will support the new Neighbourhood Health Service.

Our previous research suggested that use of the test, despite NHS England guidance, was not widespread. We believe that wider availability of the testing across CDCs can be part of a proactive effort to help detect the 400,000 people living with heart failure who are yet to be diagnosed and provide them with timely treatment.

Launch of Call to Action report on heart failure in primary care

We are in the process of finalising our report and recommendations on transforming heart failure services in primary care. This builds on our work over the last five years in improving time to diagnosis and management of heart failure in primary care and aims to set out a vision for a modern, proactive integrated approach to relieve the growing burden of heart failure through primary care.

The report is currently due to be published in December, and we will shortly be updating members with our full launch plan.

The Alliance in the media

Ahead of our 10th anniversary, we have previewed our upcoming report on transforming heart failure services in primary care in both National Health Executive magazine and the Clinical Services Journal magazine. 

As NICE named pharmacists as part of the heart failure multidisciplinary team for the first time, our co-chair Preeti Minhas was quoted in The Pharmaceutical Journal welcoming the development but pointing out that currently just 15% of heart failure specialist clinics have a pharmacist attached.

Preeti was also quoted in a Community Pharmacy feature on the role of pharmacy in cardiovascular disease prevention, highlighting the potential to build on the existing hypertension service with additional screening checks around common heart failure symptoms, leading to referral for a simple NT-proBNP test.

Working agreement with the British Society for Heart Failure

The British Society for Heart Failure and the Alliance for Heart Failure have agreed the terms of a working relationship, which sees the BSH reestablished as a full member of the Alliance.

We are delighted to be working more closely with the BSH as they develop their 25in25 campaign, focusing in particular on early detection, better management of the disease in the community and expanding the role of primary care.