The HFNS forum provides peer to peer networking and best practice sharing.
The next HFNS forum will be held on in summer 2022.
For more details on the HFNS forum, or to tell us topics that you’d like discussed, please contact Andrea Marlow.
12 April 2022
- SGLT2 inhibitors – Julia deCourcey, HF Nurse Consultant, King’s College Hospital
- Patient story – Hayley Pryse-Hawkins, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals
23 November 2021
Professor Theresa McDonagh, Consultant Cardiologist and Clinical Lead for Heart Failure at King’s College Hospital, discussed the new ESC heart failure guidelines at the November HFNS Forum.
29 September 2021
- SGLT-2 inhibitors, diabetes drugs, scandals and serendipity – Dr Andrew D’Silva, Consultant Cardiologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- MedTap: The clinician’s consultation at the patients’ fingertips – Gayle Campbell, Heart Failure Pharmacist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
26 March 2021
- Check in: Part II – Dr Mary Docherty, Consultant Psychiatrist, King’s College London
- Health and wellbeing resources and services for staff
11 February 2021
- “Time to check in” – Dr Mary Docherty, Consultant Psychiatrist, King’s College London
- KHP mental health and wellbeing pathways
- Health and wellbeing resources and support services for staff
12 February 2020
E-learning course
- Motivational interviewing – An evidence-based approach that encourages patients to talk themselves into making beneficial changes (approx 1 hour, free)
Presentations
- Heart failure and depression – Dr Mary Docherty, Consultant Psychiatrist, King’s College London
- Anxiety management and treatment adherence – Ritu Kalsi, Senior Health Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist in Cardiac Health and rehabilitation, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
3 October 2019
Presentations
- Common mental health problems in heart failure – Ritu Kalsi, Senior Health Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist in Cardiac Health and Rehabilitation, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
6 June 2019
Presentations
- General heart failure case study – What would you do? Siobhan Armstrong, Heart Failure CNS, St George’s Hospital
- Sacubitril / valsartan update and survey results – Clare Thomson, Pharmacist, St Thomas’ Hospital
- Sacubitril / valsartan case studies – Julia DeCourcey, Nurse Consultant, King’s College Hospital
Resources
- Deactivating implantable cardioverter defibrillators: Clinical guidance – Please share with your colleagues
- Heart failure: Self management tool – Advice leaflet for managing symptoms
- Safe and Independent Living (SAIL) – In conjunction with Age UK, SAIL helps people over 55 to identify needs and connect with local services (SAIL in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham)
7 February 2019
Presentations
- Palliative care in heart failure – Rebecca Chapanga, Palliative Care Nurse, Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice,
- Multi-disciplinary team working in advanced heart failure – Jemma Markey, HFNS and Sue Simpson, HFNS Oxleas Community Foundation Trust
- Deactivation of ICDs as part of end of life care – Michael Cooklin, Consultant Cardiologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust
- Implications for heart failure nurse specialists – Julia DeCourcey, Nurse Consultant, King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust