Heart failure pathways

Cardiology

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has redesigned its heart failure pathway and developed some resources to support colleagues

We've recently been working with patients, GPs, cardiologists, pharmacists and heart failure specialist nurses to transform our end-to-end heart failure. Our objectives have been to:

Create a more integrated pathway across primary and secondary care
Reduce unplanned hospital admissions
Improve efficiency of the service so more time of specialists can be spent on clinical priorities
And ultimately, improve patient experience and outcomes
Watch the video to find out how we have been transforming heart failure care:

We've made 13+ changes to the pathway to date, with our interim findings already showing that we have:

- Increased referrals to specialist heart failure services

- Improved system coding of heart failure patients so they can receive better care

- Made improvements to save cardiologists' and nurses' time

As well as piloting new technology, like remote monitoring for heart failure patients, we have focused on improving the way we communicate between primary and secondary care, and with patients, using our electronic health record system (Systm One). For more information on these changes you can download the following documents: