Managing the Heart Failure Patient through Primary and Secondary Care

Session Overview

This day looks at how to manage a patient with heart failure through both Primary and Secondary Care.

We will look at understanding the diagnosis through to complications in both primary and secondary settings, including palliation and End of Life Care.

The day will include specialists in heart failure care as well as a patient’s story.

The day includes lunch and refreshments.

Suitable for Healthcare professionals involved in heart failure care across community and acute settings, including:

• Primary care teams (GPs, practice nurses, community pharmacists)
• Specialist and multidisciplinary teams (complex case practitioners, frailty teams, virtual wards, advanced clinical practitioners)
• Acute care staff (hospital medics, cardiac unit staff, hospital pharmacists)
• Allied health professionals (physiotherapists, occupational therapists)

Agenda

(As listed; speaker roles subject to confirmation)

• An Introduction to Heart Failure
  by Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
• Pharmacology in Heart Failure
  by Lenny Choi, Cardiology Pharmacist Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Advanced Heart Failure, Transplantation and Criteria for devices
  by Dr Dennis Chong, Heart Failure Consultant, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital North Midlands
• Complications of Heart Failure: Cardio/Renal Syndrome
  by Kate Emery & Jane Winstanley, Heart Failure CNS Team, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Palliation in Heart Failure
  by Dr Carrie Owen, Heart Failure Consultant, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Heart Failure and Me: A Patient’s Story
• Complications of Heart Failure: Hypotension, Frailty and Falls
  by Dr Michaela Visser, SPR Frailty team, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this study day, you will be able to:

• Understand the management of heart failure across both primary and secondary care settings
• Recognise signs of clinical deterioration in patients with heart failure
• Know when and how to intervene effectively
• Escalate care appropriately when needed
• Increase your confidence and competence in managing heart failure
• Contribute to improved patient outcomes
• Support the delivery of safe, high-quality, and integrated care

Programme Information

This event forms part of the Specialist Palliative Care Education Programme delivered by The End of Life Partnership.

Details

• Date: Tuesday 11th November 2025  FULL
• Length: All day, 9:00am – 4:30pm
• Refreshments: Lunch and refreshments are provided
• Suitable for: Complex Case practitioners, GP’s, Community Pharmacists, Practice nurses and District nurses undertaking Heart Failure reviews, Medics in Acute Trust areas, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Frailty Teams, Virtual Ward teams, Cardiac unit staff, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Hospital Pharmacists.
• Delivered: Face to face
• Location: Canalside Conference Centre, 34 -36 Brooks Lane, Middlewich CW10 0JG
• Funded: for Cheshire East Place staff.
• Cost: £100 for anyone who works outside of Cheshire East Place

Cost

• Funded: Fully funded for Cheshire East Place staff.
• Cost: £100 for employees who work outside of funded area.