Alliance for Heart Failure meets MPs at drop-in event
November 2017: MPs from across the country took the opportunity to learn more about heart failure at a drop-in session at Portcullis House on Wednesday, November 15, hosted by Maggie Throup MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Heart Disease and Virendra Sharma, Member of Parliament for Ealing […]
Improvements in heart failure services welcome, but regional variation must be addressed
August 2017: The Alliance for Heart Failure welcomes the improvements in heart failure services, as reported in the latest National Heart Failure Audit, but calls for much more to be done to address the vast regional variation in patient outcomes. The audit, published on August 10, 2017, reported that mortality […]
Survival Rate
The survival rate for heart failure is worse than breast or prostate cancer.
900,000 Affected
Heart failure affects over 900,000 people in the UK, with 200,000 new cases annually.
Over 65’s
Heart failure is a leading cause of hospital admissions in the over 65s.
Admissions
Projections indicate that hospital admissions for heart failure are set to rise by 50% in the next 25 years.
Fatalities
Twice as many heart failure patients who are not treated on cardiology wards die (14% of all patients, vs 7%).
Treatment
Men are more likely to have input from a heart failure specialist or cardiologist than women.
Specialists
1 in 5 patients admitted to hospital with symptoms of heart failure are not seen by a heart specialist.