Heart Failure Unfiltered Podcast

Heart Failure Unfiltered Podcast

By Pumping Marvellous, the UK's Heart Failure Charity. Fuelled by patients.Health & Fitness
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  • From Symptoms to Solutions: Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care | Heart Failure Unfiltered

    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’¬ Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    Corinne was told she had the heart of an 87 year old smoker. It was blunt, it was said with humour, and it was the first thing anybody had said that she actually understood. So what does good management look like after the diagnosis is done?


    In the final episode of a three-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with pharmacist Shannon Nixon of the Yorkshire and Humber Heart Failure Academy and patient educators Corinne and Katie. Katie plans recovery time around anything she does and has learned to say no.


    They talk about whether clinicians overthink heart failure and cushion bad news past the point of usefulness, the difference between confidence and competence in a primary care team, and why heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is where the biggest gains are sitting. Corinne watched a man ask a receptionist for an appointment about his swollen legs. The BEAT poster she had put up was on the wall beside the desk.


    In this episode:

    00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

    01:00: Meet Shannon, Corinne and Katie

    03:00: Why management is more than medicines

    04:30: Energy management, and being understood by your team

    05:30: Knowing your limits and planning around them

    07:00: The guilt of feeling like a burden

    07:40: Do we overthink heart failure?

    08:20: "I remember being told I couldn't have children"

    09:00: Are we afraid of the word failure?

    10:20: The heart of an 87 year old smoker

    12:30: Discharged from the specialist team into primary care

    15:50: Confidence versus competence

    18:50: Rebuilding trust after a missed diagnosis

    19:40: Why HFpEF is the bigger opportunity

    24:20: The man at the reception desk with swollen legs

    27:00: Why primary care holds the key


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.


    ⚑ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.


    #HeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAcademy #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #HFpEF #HeartFailureManagement #SelfManagement #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacRehab #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #HeartDisease #UKCharity #YorkshireAndHumber #CardiologyCare

    31 min
  • The Primary Care Moment That Changes Everything | Heart Failure Unfiltered

    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’¬ Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    Corinne's fitness hid her heart failure. Katie kept going back to the same surgery with the same symptoms until she took herself to A&E. So how many times should somebody come back before you start looking somewhere else?


    In the second episode of a three-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with patient educators Katie and Corinne Hudson and pharmacist Shannon Nixon, who leads education at the Yorkshire and Humber Heart Failure Academy. The conversation is about the appointment itself, and what a healthcare professional can do inside ten minutes that changes where somebody ends up. Corinne's point is that nobody ever asked what her normal looked like. Katie's is that she stopped pushing because she felt she was disrespecting people who had trained for years.


    They talk about active listening and the question that comes after it, why patients self doubt themselves into silence, and what happens to people who have no advocate at all. Katie's brother, who is autistic, was diagnosed with the same heart condition last year, and it happened because Katie knew what to push for.


    In this episode:

    00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

    01:00: Meet Katie, Corinne and Shannon

    02:20: Their diagnoses in thirty seconds

    03:20: What healthcare professionals should take from this

    04:20: How many times should someone come back before you investigate?

    05:20: Actively listening, and asking the next question

    06:00: "What does your normal look like?"

    09:10: Old fashioned doctoring, and seeing the passion

    10:40: The background people nobody checks on

    12:00: Why patient insight changes the training

    15:50: Katie's brother, and who advocates for people without support

    16:50: The self doubt that stops you pushing back

    18:10: The opportunistic conversation that leads to escalation

    20:10: 200 people a webinar, and word of mouth


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.


    ⚑ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.


    #HeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAcademy #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #HeartFailureAwareness #KnowTheSymptoms #ActiveListening #PatientAdvocacy #EarlyDiagnosis #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #HeartDisease #UKCharity #YorkshireAndHumber #CardiologyCare

    22 min
  • Can You Live Well With Heart Failure? | Heart Failure Unfiltered

    Sarah-Jane was diagnosed at 28 and is a heart failure nurse now. Corinne was heading towards a transplant conversation three years ago and is stable on the same medication. So what does getting your life back actually look like?


    In this final episode of a four-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Sarah-Jane, Katie and Corinne to ask whether you can build a good life while heart failure stays exactly where it is. Sarah-Jane calls it her reincarnation. Katie could not have children of her own, so she became the aunt whose sister has the kids packed and waiting before the sentence is finished. Corinne slowed down, misses her colleagues, and does not miss the stress.


    They talk about what "stable" actually means, the abandonment people describe when they are discharged from a specialist team back to primary care, and the postcode lottery that decides whether an echocardiogram takes two weeks or six months. Nick closes on a line he wrote down beforehand. Without inquisitiveness, managing heart failure is Russian roulette.


    No white coats. No jargon. Just people who've lived it.


    In this episode:

    00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

    01:04: Marvellous myth buster, is extreme tiredness just age?

    01:21: Meet Sarah-Jane, Katie and Corinne

    02:45: Can you build a good life while heart failure stays?

    04:19: "I like to think of heart failure as my reincarnation"

    07:56: Is this life better than the one before?

    11:15: Do you still see yourself as vulnerable?

    14:44: Where the hope actually comes from

    16:15: What does stable really mean?

    17:16: Feeling abandoned when you go back to primary care

    20:07: What we've each discovered about ourselves

    22:53: The postcode lottery for an echocardiogram

    25:36: Can you still live well, and what that phrase should mean

    28:14: Nick's ABCD theory of patients

    33:05: Without inquisitiveness, it's Russian roulette


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.


    ⚑ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.


    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’¬ Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    #HeartFailure #LivingWithHeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAwareness #HeartFailureRecovery #Hope #SelfManagement #PeerSupport #ChronicIllness #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #HeartHealth #HeartDisease #UKCharity #PublicHealth #CardiologyCare

    35 min
  • Three 10Ks a Week, Then I Couldn't Walk Up the Stairs | Heart Failure Unfiltered

    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’¬ Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    In the first episode of a three-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Shannon Nixon of the Yorkshire and Humber Heart Failure Academy and patient educators Corinne Hudson and Katie. Between them, Katie and Corinne were told it was mental health, lifestyle, weight and anxiety. Corinne was testing her own urine, blood pressure and blood sugar at home because she knew something was wrong and nobody would say what. Katie's mum eventually called 111, and the operator sent an ambulance after listening to her try to speak.


    They talk about what the one appointment that worked actually did differently, why the waiting between scans was harder than the diagnosis itself, and how the Academy is building on BEAT to get heart failure onto the radar of generalists across Yorkshire and Humber. The cardiologist who saw Katie in A&E told her mum he wasn't sure how she was still standing.


    In this episode:

    00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

    01:30: Meet Shannon, Corinne and Katie

    02:30: Katie's symptoms, and everything they were put down to

    05:00: Corinne was running three 10Ks a week

    07:00: The one appointment that was different

    08:20: The BEAT symptoms she had all along

    09:40: Why generalists don't think heart failure first

    11:30: The map the Heart Failure Academy created

    14:00: What it felt like to finally have an answer

    15:40: Marvellous myth buster, does heart failure only affect older adults?

    16:40: The waiting, the ICD, and "my rebrand"

    20:20: The 111 call Katie's mum made

    22:00: Heart failure as the Cinderella syndrome

    24:30: BEAT posters in every practice in Yorkshire and Humber

    27:00: The booklet, and why knowledge is power


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.


    ⚑ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.


    #HeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAcademy #PrimaryCare #HeartFailureAwareness #KnowTheSymptoms #EarlyDiagnosis #GeneralPractice #NTproBNP #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #HeartDisease #UKCharity #YorkshireAndHumber #CardiologyCare

    31 min
  • They Told Me It Was All in My Head | Heart Failure Unfiltered

    Katie spent over a year on antidepressants and diazepam. She had two blood clots in her lungs, one in her left ventricle, and failing kidneys and liver. So what does it take to be believed?


    In this third episode of a four-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Katie, Sarah-Jane and Corinne for what he calls the most provocative conversation of the series. A GP made Katie run around the car park and come back so he could show her that her oxygen levels had not changed. Corinne was told to stop recording her own blood pressure because she was making herself anxious. Sarah-Jane woke at 38 weeks pregnant unable to breathe and was worked up for a pulmonary embolism, a chest infection and childhood asthma before anyone looked at her heart.


    They talk about how one line in your notes follows you from doctor to doctor, why no patient ever walks into a surgery and says they think they have heart failure, and what to say at the next appointment when you have already been told you are fine. Sarah-Jane is a heart failure nurse now. She makes extra time for her younger patients.


    No white coats. No jargon. Just people who've lived it.


    In this episode:

    00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

    01:17: Meet Katie, Sarah-Jane and Corinne

    03:13: When you first know something is genuinely wrong

    05:05: Waking up at 38 weeks pregnant unable to breathe

    06:36: Cold after cold, and sleeping sat up

    08:23: "I don't know how to tell you this, but it's in your head"

    10:06: What the symptoms actually turned out to be

    13:44: When you start to doubt yourself

    15:34: The emergency section nobody expected her to survive

    17:00: Marvellous myth buster, do you have to manage this alone?

    21:10: Why young people get overlooked

    26:20: Why nobody walks in saying "I think I've got heart failure"

    33:36: What to say when you are told everything is fine

    36:36: Nick at the GP in his pyjamas and slippers


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.


    ⚑ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.


    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’¬ Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    #HeartFailure #Misdiagnosis #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAwareness #KnowTheSymptoms #Breathlessness #NotInYourHead #WomensHealth #MaternalHealth #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #HeartDisease #UKCharity #PublicHealth #CardiologyCare

    40 min
  • Nobody Tells You What Happens Next | Heart Failure Unfiltered

    Donna was told she had heart failure on a Thursday. On the Friday she was back running her shop. So what happens once everybody decides the emergency is over?


    In this second episode of a four-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Corinne, Donna and Danny to talk about the part nobody plans for, the weeks and months after the diagnosis. Danny came home with a bag of tablets and no idea what any of them did, and his wife Jane spent four nights awake watching him sleep. Corinne worked out how serious it was from a copy of a letter sent to her GP. Donna did not leave the house for a year.


    They talk about the visitors who stop coming after a week, side effects that get brushed off as "you're on a lot of medication now", and why nobody thinks to hand you a peer support group along with the prescription. Danny decided in his hospital bed that he would climb Ben Nevis within twelve months. He did it.


    No white coats. No jargon. Just people who've lived it.


    In this episode:

    00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

    01:27: Meet Corinne, Donna and Danny

    02:05: What happens when everyone thinks the emergency is over

    05:16: A diagnosis drip-fed over months, and the "magic box" ICD

    07:17: The visitors stop coming after about a week

    09:28: The first night at home

    18:03: A bag of tablets and nobody explaining them

    22:36: The emotional side nobody checks on

    25:18: Why peer support should be prescribed

    26:05: Losing the social life you used to have

    28:20: When the fear finally became manageable

    30:44: Finding the humour, and the Robbie Williams tickets

    34:07: What helped you believe tomorrow might come

    39:40: Helping somebody win at something


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.


    ⚑ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.


    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’¬ Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    #HeartFailure #LivingWithHeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAwareness #HeartFailureRecovery #CaregiverSupport #PeerSupport #ChronicIllness #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #HeartHealth #HeartDisease #UKCharity #PublicHealth #MentalHealthAndIllness #CardiologyCare

    42 min
  • It Wasn't a Chest Infection... It Was Heart Failure | Heart Failure Unfiltered

    Katie went back to her GP every month for 15 months. Danny had 16 appointments in a year and nobody checked his blood pressure once. So why does heart failure take so long to spot?


    In this first episode of a four-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Katie, Danny and Donna to talk about the part nobody prepares you for, getting the diagnosis. Between them they were told it was a chest infection, asthma, their pacemaker, their weight, their age and their mental health. Danny went private in the end and was told his cough was psychological. Donna was carrying so much fluid that her trousers burst while she was stocking a bottom shelf at work. Katie was blue-lighted to hospital and spent six weeks unconscious, so her parents were given the diagnosis instead of her.


    They talk about how long it takes to be believed, whether a diagnosis at 26 gets taken as seriously as one at 70, and what they wish someone had said to them in that room. Danny wrote out his funeral arrangements at three in the morning. Three years on, he says his life has never been better.


    No white coats. No jargon. Just people who've lived it.


    In this episode:

    00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers

    01:43: Meet Katie, Danny and Donna

    02:53: The symptoms you can't explain to yourself

    09:48: A year, 16 appointments, no blood pressure check

    12:14: Why we all explain the symptoms away

    13:34: Is heart failure diagnosis ageist?

    15:06: Why BEAT matters

    16:03: The moment each of them was told

    25:07: Catastrophe or relief?

    28:38: Grieving the life you thought you'd have

    32:14: What we wish we'd known on day one

    38:05: Where to find support


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you.


    ⚑ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test.


    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’¬ Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    #HeartFailure #HeartFailureDiagnosis #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAwareness #KnowTheSymptoms #Breathlessness #Misdiagnosis #HeartHealth #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #HeartDisease #UKCharity #PublicHealth #EjectionFraction #CardiologyCare

    39 min
  • Heart Failure Unfiltered | We Got Dad Back... But Nothing Went Back to Normal

    Getting the diagnosis is only the beginning. So what happens to a family once the crisis passes and heart failure just... stays?


    In this second episode of a two-part series, Nick Hartshorn-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits back down with his wife Karen and daughters Natasha and Anastasia to talk about what came after his heart failure diagnosis at 39. Coming home didn't mean going back to normal. Instead, it meant a new German Shepherd puppy, a secretly renovated bedroom, missing prescriptions, a heart failure nurse who became a lifeline, and two young girls quietly growing up faster than they should have.


    Together they talk honestly about isolation, mental health, the confusing gap between specialist and GP care, why percentages like "ejection fraction" mean nothing without context, and what they'd say to a family just starting this journey. It's a warm, funny, and deeply honest look at the long tail of a heart failure diagnosis β€” for the patient and everyone around them.


    This is part two of a two-part series.


    In this episode:

    00:00 β€” Welcome & what this episode covers

    02:39 β€” Coming home to fish and chips (and being sick)

    03:57 β€” The secret bedroom makeover

    05:28 β€” The chandelier assembly saga

    06:55 β€” What the girls actually remember coming home

    07:15 β€” Were you being a giddy five-year-old?

    08:54 β€” Living "institutionalised" after weeks in hospital

    09:15 β€” Nearly giving Riggs the puppy away

    09:48 β€” Giving a hospitalised parent's gift some thought

    11:27 β€” Watching for symptoms with no clear playbook

    12:26 β€” The warfarin prescription fight

    13:53 β€” Losing hospital "cotton wool" back in primary care

    14:12 β€” Getting back to normal vs. pacing yourself

    19:17 β€” What heart failure changed β€” or "chained" β€” in the family

    19:27 β€” Marvellous myth buster: does a diagnosis mean nothing improves?

    21:05 β€” Did isolation ever creep in?

    22:51 β€” The fall, the head bang, and the long A&E wait

    24:03 β€” Did it make the girls grow up faster?

    25:29 β€” "Nobody's ever talked about the charity" β€” until now

    26:18 β€” What have you learned about your parents?

    28:09 β€” What clinicians should β€” and shouldn't β€” tell young children

    31:19 β€” Why ejection fraction percentages confuse patients

    33:05 β€” What would you say to another child going through this?

    35:20 β€” What Nick would tell himself in that hospital bed

    36:06 β€” Closing thoughts and how to find support


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity β€” patient-led, trusted, and here for you.

    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    #HeartFailure #HeartFailureAwareness #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #FamilyStory #HeartFailureRecovery #HeartHealth #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #CaregiverSupport #HeartDisease #UKCharity #PublicHealth #MentalHealthAndIllness #HospitalStory #EjectionFraction #CardiologyCare

    39 min
  • Heart Failure Unfiltered | When Heart Failure Came Home

    A heart failure diagnosis doesn't just happen to one person - it happens to the whole family. So why does it so often take a crisis before anyone gets the diagnosis right?


    In this first episode of a two-part series, Nick Hartshorn-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - turns the mic on his own family. At 39, Nick was rushed to hospital with organs shutting down before finally being told: "you've got heart failure." Fifteen years on, he sits down with his wife Karen and daughters Natasha and Anastasia to relive the missed symptoms, the frightening hospital stay, and what it was really like watching a husband and father become critically ill without warning.


    Together they unpack the GP visits that missed the signs, the terrifying nights of hallucinations, how a new puppy became an unlikely lifeline, and the different ways children and adults process a frightening diagnosis. It's a raw, funny, and honest look at what happens when heart failure comes home - essential listening for patients, families, and anyone who has ever sat by a hospital bed not knowing what's next.


    This is part one of a two-part series.


    In this episode:

    00:00 β€” Welcome & what this series is about

    00:22 β€” The question this series keeps asking: beat the diagnosis

    00:52 β€” Marvellous myth buster: can symptoms improving mean you're cured?

    01:09 β€” Meet the family: wife Karen and daughters Natasha & Anastasia

    02:07 β€” The day our family changed forever

    02:15 β€” A frozen house, a new puppy and the first warning signs

    03:41 β€” Struggling to breathe and missing the classic symptoms

    04:51 β€” A&E dismisses it as "pregnant woman syndrome"

    05:41 β€” The little green men: hallucinations begin

    06:38 β€” "You're going to hospital" β€” the turning point

    08:44 β€” Kidneys and liver failing, doctors baffled

    11:33 β€” Diagnosed: "you've got heart failure"

    15:09 β€” Telling two young daughters without scaring them

    16:10 β€” A puppy, school runs and holding the family together

    17:26 β€” Did the NHS miss the warning signs at home?

    18:49 β€” Reading heart failure leaflets: "you're going to die"

    19:29 β€” What the girls actually remember from hospital

    20:51 β€” Would Google and AI have changed how scared they felt?

    23:16 β€” Driving home after hearing the words "heart failure"

    24:14 β€” The worst days: fluid overload and a wheelchair to the bathroom

    24:44 β€” Was there even time to be afraid?

    28:58 β€” Marvellous myth buster: why do we say "failure"?

    31:08 β€” What "heart failure" meant to a five-year-old

    32:08 β€” Sisters, secrets and sweets from WH Smith

    36:26 β€” Nick turns the questions back on Karen

    39:38 β€” Living with an ejection fraction of 15–20%

    41:45 β€” Why Nick didn't want his daughters to see him that ill

    44:07 β€” What Nick wishes he'd understood sooner

    47:37 β€” Would they tell the girls differently if they were teens?

    50:46 β€” Life on the cardiology ward: unforgettable characters

    52:23 β€” Closing thoughts and where to find support


    πŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.

    The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity β€” patient-led, trusted, and here for you.

    πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org

    πŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone


    #HeartFailure #HeartFailureAwareness #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #FamilyStory #HeartFailureDiagnosis #HeartHealth #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #CaregiverSupport #HeartDisease #UKCharity #PublicHealth #MentalHealthAndIllness #HospitalStory #HeartTransplant #CardiologyCare

    53 min
  • Heart Failure Unfiltered | Beyond Diagnosis: How BEAT Heart Health Events Deliver Value for the NHS

    Finding heart failure early doesn't just save lives - it saves the NHS money, time, and capacity. But why are we still so slow at catching it?In this second episode of a two-part series, Nick is joined by Gavin (patient educator and heart transplant recipient), Amy (Medtronic), and Gail (ICB CVD Prevention Commissioner) to look beyond the individual diagnosis story and ask the bigger system question: how do we find people earlier, at scale, and bring healthcare into the communities that need it most?Together they unpack the real cost of late diagnosis, the inequalities driving it, why the NHS still isn't built for prevention, and how community-based BEAT Heart Health Events - funded by Medtronic and delivered with the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - are screening thousands of people and catching hidden cases of hypertension and heart failure before they become emergencies.This is part two of a two-part series - essential listening for patients, carers, commissioners, and anyone working in cardiovascular health.In this episode:00:00 β€” Welcome & what this series is about00:22 β€” Finding people earlier at scale01:20 β€” Meet Gail, Amy & Gav02:00 β€” The biggest cardiovascular challenges facing the NHS04:19 β€” Why the system stays reactive, not preventative09:29 β€” Have we failed at CVD prevention?12:00 β€” Prevention vs. political headline cycles10:12 β€” How much heart disease is actually preventable15:37 β€” What "primordial prevention" really means12:52 β€” The NHS 10 Year Plan and the neighbourhood model13:32 β€” Bringing healthcare into the community17:57 β€” Why health isn't always a priority for people18:53 β€” Rethinking "hard to reach" communities19:08 β€” Marvellous myth buster: heart medication21:42 β€” Why trust is everything in community healthcare23:11 β€” Reaching diverse and underserved communities25:32 β€” Collaboration between charities, NHS & industry28:03 β€” What success looks like for Medtronic27:42 β€” Why schools could be part of the neighbourhood model29:32 β€” The fear factor: why people avoid hospitals33:15 β€” Speaking the public's language, not jargon36:20 β€” Measuring success beyond the numbers34:43 β€” Making screening the norm, not a one-off event39:11 β€” AI, data & the future of prevention43:47 β€” Where cardiovascular care needs to be in 5 years44:38 β€” Closing thoughts: earlier changes everythingπŸ«€ If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone.The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity β€” patient-led, trusted, and here for you.πŸ”— Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.orgπŸ’› Donate Β£5 today and help someone feel less alone#HeartFailure #HeartFailureAwareness #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #BEATHeartHealth #CVDPrevention #EarlyDiagnosis #NHS10YearPlan #HealthInequalities #CommunityHealthcare #HeartHealth #PatientAdvocacy #NHSInnovation #HeartDisease #PopulationHealth #UKCharity #PublicHealth #Prevention #DigitalHealth #ChronicIllness


    45 min

About Heart Failure Unfiltered Podcast

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This Podcast has been brought to you by the Pumping Marvellous Foundation the UK's Heart Failure Charity.