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This conference will focus on improving end of life care for people with Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Failure through a person centred, needs led approach.
“Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death in England”
Independent Investigation of the National Health Service in England, September 2024
“Heart failure is a progressive and life limiting condition affecting almost a million people in the UK at any one time. Early identification and honest communication enable parallel planning and support for the individual and those important to them. Active treatment for heart failure alongside symptom management allows optimisation of their quality of life. Inequity must be addressed. There remains wide variation in access to palliative and end of life care in people with heart failure compared to those with cancer. Even within the heart failure community, those with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction are less likely to access palliative and end of life care than those with reduced ejection fraction. There is unwarranted variation in access to palliative care for people living with heart failure. This is often due to a lack of timely identification of need and holistic assessment, leaving many with unmet needs.”
NHS England
“There remains wide variation in access to palliative and end of life care in people with heart failure compared to those with cancer… Lack of an integrated personalised care and support plan developed at an early stage may lead to uncoordinated care delivery, particularly at times of crisis… people with advanced heart failure who receive palliative care have better outcomes including better symptom control, improved quality of life and fewer hospital admissions”
NHS England
The conference will reflect on how we can improve care for people at the end of life, embed high quality supportive care pathways at an early stage, improve communication about end of life care, and understand progression of Heart Failure: predicting and recognising last days of life and managing uncertainty. The conference will also discuss best practice in symptom control. The conference will allow you to assess your service against the national guidance “Addressing palliative and end of life care needs for people living with heart failure: a revised framework for integrated care systems’. This framework aims to raise awareness of the supportive, palliative and end of life care needs of people living or dying with progressive heart failure, to help in commissioning services to meet their needs.
“People with advanced heart failure who receive palliative care have better outcomes including better symptom control, improved quality of life and fewer hospital admissions. Providing people with heart failure with the right care, at the right time, in the right setting will improve patient and carer experience, reduce harm and increase efficiency the UK.”
NHS England
“Heart Failure is a misunderstood and misdiagnosed condition, as malignant as some of the most common cancers, it should be treated with the same urgency.”
British Society for Heart Failure
This conference will enable you to:
Network with colleagues who are working to improve end of life care for people with cardiovascular disease and heart failure
Learn from the experience of someone living with heart failure
Reflect on national developments and learning
Understand what excellence in end of life care for heart failure looks like in practice
Gain clarify on the requirements of the framework for integrated care systems for palliative care for people living with heart failure
Improve the approach to talking to people with heart failure about end of life care & advance care planning
Learn firsthand from services developing pioneering models of palliative care for patients and their carers living with advancing HF
Ensure effective psychological support
Reflect on progression of Heart Failure: Predicting and recognising last days of life and managing uncertainty
Understand how you can improve symptom control, hydration & prescribing
Improve medications management including deprescribing preventative medicines and prescribing for symptom control and comfort
Ensuring consistency in nursing practice
Best Practice Core Components in Cardiac Palliative Care
Self assess and reflect on your own practice
Support CPD professional development and act as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
