The Alliance for Heart Failure was established in September 2015. A coalition of charities, patient groups, professional bodies and healthcare companies, its purpose is to raise the profile of heart failure in Government, the NHS and the media and improve outcomes for people with heart failure.
Members of the Alliance collaborate on overarching policy issues with the aim of securing prioritisation of heart failure and extending access to existing first-class care, treatment and services from the NHS to make it available to everyone with heart failure.
Objectives for 2026
The Alliance is focusing on six core strategic objectives in 2026:
- Support the Department for Health and Social Care / NHS England / ICBs with the implementation of the Ten Year Health Plan, highlighting how the Alliance’s primary care Call to Action recommendations align with the Government’s three key shifts.
- Continue to raise the importance of heart failure detection, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation with the primary care workforce as a means to remove the burden of the disease on secondary care.
- Continue to highlight variation in NT-proBNP access and usage across the system, working with NHS England to develop and improve the Community Diagnostic Centre network.
- Highlight the importance of an echocardiography and heart failure specialist nurse workforce following the Ten Year Health Plan.
- Understand heart failure funding and resourcing in regions with a higher burden of heart failure ahead of the new strategic commissioning powers granted to ICBs under the Ten Year Plan.
- Develop grassroots support through ongoing communication and engagement with heart failure professionals across the breadth of provider services.
The Alliance for Heart Failure will continue to focus driving change based on the recommendations in our Primary Care: A Call to Action report.
Members
Membership of the Alliance for Heart Failure is open to charities, patient groups, professional bodies, public sector organisations and corporate members across the UK with an interest in heart failure.
Individual members remain independent, but the shared mission to deliver timely diagnosis and improve access to the right care and support is strengthened by joining forces and through collaboration.
Current Alliance for Heart Failure member organisations are:
Steering Group
The Alliance is a coalition of member organisations, and the Steering Group comprises individuals from these member organisations.
There are two Co-chairs to the Steering Group, appointed on a 12 month rolling tenure. Our Current chairs are:
- Preeti Minhas, Assistant Director of Clinical Learning, Education for Health – appointed December 2023
- Katharine McIntosh, Head of Research and Policy at Cardiomyopathy UK – appointed Co-chair July 2025
Funding
The Alliance is supported and funded by AstraZeneca UK, Medtronic UK Ltd, and Roche Diagnostics Ltd.