Help us prevent, detect and save the lives of 10,000 people a year.

Having been in my new job at the British Society for Heart Failure for a few months now, I want to do something personally to support the work we do. I'm running the Great North Run half marathon on 7th September and Swimming the 2 mile Serpentine Swim on 20th September for the BSH because...

Heart Failure is more common that the four most prevalent cancers, but almost 400,000 people in the UK have Heart Failure and do not know it.

Heart Failure is treatable but if undetected and therefore untreated can be as malignant as cancer

By preventing & detecting undetected Heart Failure, we can make the biggest difference to peoples’ lives.

The BSH leads the way in educating doctors, nurses and allied specialists to improve detection, access to care and treatment for patients with heart failure.

Early detection and treatment will reduce the impact and burden of Heart Failure on the patients and the NHS (currently costing £2 billion annually) and reduce the high numbers of patients being cared for in hospital (where 80% of patients are currently diagnosed) to instead being cared for from home.

We are investing and working collaboratively to call on the government to have heart failure recognised as a national priority.

Together we advocate, to ensure all patients whose lives are impacted by Heart Failure get equity of care across the UK (which is currently not the case at all!) and the treatments they deserve to live well.

As a charitable organisation, we rely on grants and donations to carry out our work. The donations we receive enable us to help healthcare setting detect heart failure better, deliver the training and support needed to provide the highest quality heart failure care and for us to campaign and lobby for the government prioritisation and funding that will make the systemic change needed to reduce the unnecessary loss of lives and the associated human and economic cost.

Help us prevent, detect and save lives.