Heart failure clinics and management programmes
What is a heart failure clinic/management programme?
You may live near a heart failure clinic that can work with you to improve your quality of life by helping you manage your symptoms of heart failure. Staff at the heart failure clinic will help put together your own personalised heart failure management programme that will encourage you to be an active partner in your care to improve your symptoms. These programmes usually represent a cooperation between nurses and physicians and involve other specialties as required. Patients in some areas may be offered regular follow-up and monitoring either face-to-face, over the telephone or via telemonitoring.
How will attending a heart failure clinic help you?
The heart failure clinic will help educate you on your condition and improvements that you can gain through self-management around diet, exercise and medication. The clinic will also allow you to receive more convenient follow-up care (e.g., by telephone-monitoring, by heart failure nurse, or other means) and it may encourage you to set and meet small goals in changing your lifestyle. These programmes may also provide the contact details of a person that would be available to discuss what you should do if your symptoms get worse. You may also learn about any clinical trials for new therapies, and perhaps take part in them.
Talk to your GP who will be able to give you information on your nearest heart failure clinic and whether it’s appropriate for you.
For more information on services available in your country, click on one of the links below:
National Heart Failure organisations
- Association of Cardiologists of Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Austrian Society of Cardiology
- Belgian Heart League
- Belgian Society of Cardiology
- British Heart Foundation (BHF)
- British Society of Heart Failure
- Bulgarian Society of Cardiology
- Croatian Cardiac Society
- Cyprus Heart Foundation
- Czech Society of Cardiology
- Danish Heart Foundation
- Estonian Cardiac Society
- Finnish Cardiac Society
- Finnish Heart Association
- French Society of Cardiology
- German Cardiac Society
- German Heart Foundation
- HEART UK
- Hellenic Cardiological Society
- Hungarian National Heart Foundation
- Iceland Heart Association
- Irish Cardiac Society
- Irish Heart Foundation
- Israel Heart Society
- Italian Federation of Cardiology
- Italian Heart Foundation
- Lithuanian Heart Association
- Lithuanian Society of Cardiology
- Macedonia Society of Cardiology
- Netherlands Heart Foundation
- The Netherlands Society of Cardiology
- Norwegian Society of Cardiology
- Polish Cardiac Society
- Portuguese Heart Foundation
- Portuguese Society of Cardiology
- Romanian Society of Cardiology
- Society of Cardiology of the Russian Federation
- Slovak Society of Cardiology
- Slovenian Heart Foundation
- Slovenian Society of Cardiology
- Spanish Heart Foundation
- Spanish Society of Cardiology
- Swedish Heart Lung Foundation
- Swedish Society of Cardiology
- Swiss Heart Foundation
- Swiss Society of Cardiology
- Turkish Heart Foundation
- Turkish Society of Cardiology
Patient organisations:
In English:
In Spanish:Asociación de Enfermedades
- Cardiovasculares Corazón sin Fronteras
- Associació Gironina de Prevenció i Ajuda a les Malalties del Cor (GICOR)
In Italian:
In French:
- Mon Coeur Entre Parentheses
- ASPIC
- AVEC
Lithuanian
In German:
