Heart Failure Update in Primary Care

Our ‘Heart Failure Update in Primary Care’ course is tailored for registered healthcare professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills in managing heart failure within primary care settings. This half-day workshop offers the latest insights into heart failure diagnosis, treatment, and patient support, ensuring practitioners are equipped to provide optimal care.

What You'll Learn

  • Key changes in heart failure classification, diagnostics, and pathway updates
  • How to optimise treatment using new pharmacological guidance and monitoring strategies
  • Effective ways to support patient understanding, lifestyle change, and long-term self-management

This course includes

Direct Teaching

Videos

Case Studies

Course Content

  • Review of pathophysiology, common conditions and risk factors for heart failure
  • Recent trends and statistics in heart failure prevalence
  • Updates on heart failure classification systems and guidelines
  • Updates on diagnostic criteria and guidelines
  • Implications for diagnosis and treatment in primary care settings
  • Recent developments in pharmacotherapy for heart failure
  • Review of latest guidelines and research recommendations
  • Updates in latest treatment, medication and management options
  • Integrating non-pharmacological interventions into primary care practice
  • Management of heart failure in special populations (e.g., elderly, comorbidities)
  • Overview of emerging therapies and ongoing clinical trials
  • Review requirements and updates
  • Lifestyle advice and preventative strategies
  • Enhancing patient empowerment and self-management
  • Review of resources and opportunities for continuing professional development
  • Discussion on complex case studies and scenarios
  • Opportunity for Q&A discussion

FAQs

Yes, you will be issued with a certificate on successful completion of the course

Assessment by the instructor will be continuous throughout the course

This course reflects the latest NICE, ESC, and BSH heart failure guidance. It is intended as a clinical refresher. You should only manage patients independently when both you and your employer are satisfied that you are competent to do so.

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Heart Failure Update in Primary Care This half-day workshop provides an update on the management of patients with heart failure for practice nurses and other allied registered healthcare professionals who have already completed initial Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care training and are regularly seeing patients. Participants will review current guidelines, revisit evidence-based diagnostic and treatment pathways, and sharpen their skills in assessing and managing patients with heart failure in primary care.

 

 

 

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Developed in line with current UK National Standards and Guidelines (including those in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and guidance from the NHS, NICE and Best Practice Guidelines.

 

 

 

 

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