Heart Failure in Primary Care

 

Get involved

If you are a healthcare professional working in primary care in South London and wish to become involved with the South London Heart Failure Steering Group or any other Network activity relating to heart failure, please get in touch.

 

Educational webinar series

The Network hosted a heart failure educational webinar series in 2025 and 2026, featuring a number of educational sessions for a primary care audience about different elements of heart failure care. Please see below for an overview of the topics covered. The session recordings are available and can be accessed at any time for local primary care clinicians who could not attend.

If you are a primary care clinician working in South London wishing to access either the webinar recordings or slides, please get in touch.

Session Title Speaker Focus
Suspected Heart Failure in Primary Care – detecting HF in the realm of ‘breathlessness’ Dr Sue Piper

Consultant Cardiologist

King’s College Hospital

 
  • Assessment of the breathless patient
  • Using NTproBNP in patients with suspected Heart Failure – pros and pitfalls.
  • NICE suspected HF pathway: who and when to refer, what should a referral include, and what treatment could/should be offered prior to diagnosis.
  • Communicating suspected HF with the patient – what to say and where to signpost.
  • Current HF terminology and what to expect after the HF review.

 
Medical Management of Left Sided Heart Failure Dr Baldeep Sidhu

Consultant Cardiologist

Croydon University Hospital

 
  • Current terminology of Heart Failure
  • Different medical therapies available to treat Heart Failure
  • Understand the four-pillar approach for managing Heart Failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)
  • Devices in Heart Failure
  • Management of increasing fluid retention in Heart Failure

 
Heart Failure Nursing Teams: what, where, and why?

 

 Hannah Simmons

Lead Nurse for Heart Failure

King’s College Hospital

 
  • What services do Heart Failure nursing services provide?
  • How do you refer?
  • Where are nursing services situated and how is care delivered?
  • Why refer to a Heart Failure nurse – what is the evidence and why do we matter?

 
Advanced Heart Failure Dr Mohammad Albarjas

Consultant Cardiologist

Princess Royal University Hospital
  • Cardiac devices
  • Cardiac transplantation
  • Mechanical circulatory support
  • Advance care planning
  • End of life care