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 2025
The Alliance is focusing on five core strategic objectives in 2025:
- Continue to highlight variation in NT-proBNP access across the system, leveraging new FOI data on CDCs from the Trusts and ICBs.
- Continue to raise the importance of heart failure detection, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation in primary care as a means to remove the burden of the disease on secondary care.
- Engage and educate relevant parliamentarians on the burden of heart failure and the Alliance’s solutions in its areas of focus.
- Highlight the importance of an echocardiography and heart failure specialist nurse workforce ahead of, and in the aftermath of, the Government’s Ten Year Plan for the NHS.
- 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 ten recommendations in our Heart Failure: 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 chair is:
- Preeti Minhas, Assistant Director of Clinical Learning, Education for Health – appointed December 2023
Following the news that our co-chair Richard Corder sadly passed away in March, we will confirm details of his successor in due course.
Funding
The Alliance is supported and funded by AstraZeneca UK, Boehringer Ingelheim Limited, Medtronic UK Ltd, Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd, and Roche Diagnostics Ltd.