What you can do
As a source of information, we recommend using and promoting heartfailurematters.org, the HFA patient website providing practical information for patients, families and caregivers and available in 10 languages!
Set up your local campaign around:
- Lectures to patients, their relatives and to the public about heart failure
- Open house in hospitals, show heart failure clinics, diagnostic tools and more
- Offer blood pressure measurements (important when discussing heart failure)
- Offer a NP measurement
- Arrange competitions, questionnaires, quizzes etc
- Panel debates with influential, decision-making people
- Inform the press, radio and television in advance about activities
- Share on social media, join the conversation on X, make Facebook posts
- Creation of posters/infographics in the home country language for public awareness display in hospitals/clinics/public spaces/public transport/GP/malls etc…
- Patient engagements
- Demonstration of materials and techniques
- Nurse programme
- Sponsorship support for local animations
Awards
Failure Societies / Working Groups will receive 5 free Heart Failure Congress 2027 registrations and €500 per grantee for travel and accommodation.