Patients with ‘hidden heart failure’ miss out on care and treatment because health professionals often misunderstand their condition. New research from the Primary Care Unit explores the recollections of ‘hidden heart failure’ patients and their carers, focusing on their encounters with health professionals. Patients and carers described widespread misunderstanding in the health and care services […]
Research Briefing: diagnosis and management problems for patients with hidden heart failure
Findings from four year research programme on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction Half of the one million or so people with heart failure in the UK have a condition known as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Research led by Professor Christi Deaton at the University of Cambridge over the last four years […]
GPs and primary care nurses need action to enable advance care planning (ACP) for people with heart failure
GPs and nurses in primary care want to overcome barriers to discussion about end of life care with their heart failure patients, according to new research from Dr Markus Schichtel and team, but they need specific interventions to make this possible. The research explored the process of discussion, called advance care planning, or ACP, amongst […]
Share your experience of care for heart failure during a pandemic
Determining perspectives of patients and healthcare providers on managing patients with heart failure during a pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has revealed a number of changes in practice and challenges in providing care for patients with heart failure and other long-term conditions during a time when resources are shifted to fighting the infection. […]
Lack of understanding of common heart condition leads to missed treatment opportunities, study suggests
Poor awareness of a condition known as Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) – the cause of a half of all cases of heart failure in England – could be hindering opportunities to improve care for patients, say researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Manchester, and Keele. We heard some clinicians asking: what’s the […]
Research Alert and video: Advance care planning in heart failure patients
This research alert is for those working in healthcare. It summarises the case for interventions to engage clinicians in advance care planning with heart failure patients and sets out the latest findings from our research into what interventions work. See the two minute video about this topic on our YouTube channel and download this page […]