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 that looks at 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 Primary Care: Call To Action report. This builds on our work over the last five years with primary care health professionals to reduce the time to diagnosis and improve the management of heart failure in the community. It aims to set out a vision for a modern, proactive integrated approach to relieve the growing burden of heart failure through primary care that aligns with the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan.

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 primary care Call To Action report in both National Health Executive magazine and the Clinical Services Journal magazine. 

Following the announcement that NICE have 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.

Preeti was also quoted in a Community Pharmacy feature on the role of pharmacy in tackling cardiovascular disease, highlighting the potential to build on the existing hypertension service with additional screening checks for common heart failure symptoms, leading to a referral for an 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, with the Alliance supporting its focus on early detection, better management of the disease in the community and the role of primary care in relieving the burden of the disease.

Read the full announcement here