The Heart Failure Team is a specialist nurse led team based in primary care providing an integrated effective and accessible service to address the health needs and maximise the health and well being of heart failure patients resident in Halton.
The service offers:
- advice and support to heart failure patients relatives and carers
- monitoring of the patients condition and onward referral where necessary
- review of medications
The ongoing management and support of heart failure patients is a joint responsibility across primary and secondary care, with care crossing organisational boundaries for the benefit of patients, families and carers.
Patients are encouraged to take an active role in their long term care.
Heart failure services aim to reduce the need for patients to be admitted to hospital and reduce the length of stay in hospital by proactively monitoring and managing patients in line with national guidance.
Who can access the service?
Any adult patient, registered with a Halton GP, who have a confirmed diagnosis of heart failure.
- left ventricular systolic dysfunction
- diastolic heart failure (preserved ejection fraction)
- valvular heart failure, including right sided if no evidence of respiratory disease
How can people access the service?
Referral by health care professional.
- general practitioners
- practice nurses
- secondary and primary care specialist nurses
- community matrons
- district nurses
- consultant cardiologists / physicians
- palliative care clinicians
Where is the service offered?
The service is offered in a variety of settings depending on clinical need including:
- community-based clinics in GP practices and community health centres
- telephone support
- home visits
Contact details
Halton Heart Failure Team
Mill Brow Clinic
Mill Brow
Widnes
WA8 6RT
Telephone: 0151 495 5264
Email: Millbrow.referrals@nhs.net
Related websites
CG108 Chronic heart failure: understanding NICE guidance
British Heart Foundation – Heart Failure
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