Committee on Patient Care

Coordinator

Dr T. McDonagh, FESC London (GB) email

Committee

Find out more:

• Grant for HF nurse research
• Heart Failure Matters! - the educational site for heart failure patients
• Heart Failure Nurse curriculum
• Papers of interest

  NEW PUBLICATIONS! Self-care management of heart failure: practical recommendations from the Patient Care Committee of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology  European Journal of Heart Failure: Volume 13: Issue 2: Februry 2011 European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association  Standards for delivering heart failure care European Journal of Heart Failure: Advance Access

  Objectives:

  To facilitate and encourage multidisciplinary heart failure care in Europe. We aim to achieve this by:

  • Educational meetings and development of curricula.
  • Publications relating to delivery of heart failure care
  • Facilitating research
  • Resource for patient care

  Priorities

  • Publishing: publication imminent for 2 papers
  • Nurse Training grant for PhD students
  • Run an Educational Course in 2012:Delivering patient care in heart failure: an update
  • Research activity on the flu vaccine with national heart failure societies
  • Work on the Training Programme for heart failure nurses

  Papers

  • A scientific statement on Palliative Care in Heart Failure has been published by the HFA (Eur J Heart Fail. 2009 May;11(5):433-443). The document is the outcome of the HFA Workshop on Palliative Care in Heart Failure, held in November 2007, an initiative of the former HFA Study Group on Advanced Heart Failure.
    Read the full text.

  For any information on the Committee (membership, meetings, etc...), please contact us here.