Committees

Following the creation of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, several innovations have been introduced: Develop HFA-activities bottom-up, through the formation of Committees.

Committees

  • Heart Failure Management Programmes Network
    Members are institutions offering an outpatient, multidisciplinary programme designed to improve care delivery to patients with symptomatic heart failure
  • Acute Heart Failure
    To communicate with the Heart Failure Working Groups of the European National Societies about implementation and evaluation of the "New Guidelines on Acute Heart Failure"
  • Heart Failure Surveys & Registries
    To promote surveys/registries on heart failure in ESC countries in order to improve the knowledge of the management of this disease across Europe
  • Education
    To facilitate the delivery of the mission of the HFA of the ESC by organising and encouraging education about heart failure amongst professionals, patients and society.
  • HFA-Industry
    To improve heart failure care through awareness, education and research among the public, patients and their healthcare providers and decision makers.
  • National Heart Failure Societies
    To create a European network of national heart failure societies or working groups in order to improve the management of patients with heart failure.
  • Translational Research
    To promote the development, application and translation of basic science knowledge to clinically relevant questions and targets in the field of heart failure.
  • Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction 
    To promote clinical recognition, therapy and research of diastolic heart failure within the Heart Failure Association of the ESC.
  • External Affairs 
    To promote the interaction among heart failure researchers with a combined basic science and clinical focus

HFA Structure

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