Heart Failure Specialist Nurse Service

The Heart Failure Service provides:

• Assessment and care planning to develop and agree individual goals.
• Post hospital discharge review and assessment.
• Optimisation of anti-heart failure medications.
• Management of decompensation episodes.
• Education and advice to support people with treatment and self-management strategies at home.
• End of life care in partnership with local palliative care and district nurse teams.

The service is available for adults aged over 18 who are registered with a Guildford & Waverley GP.

This include patients living in their own homes or residential and nursing care homes.

Your appointment would be made following a referral from your GP or hospital specialist consultant, where there is a clinical diagnosis of heart failure which is confirmed by an echocardiogram and where you would benefit from nursing assessment and care planning.

Following your initial assessment at home or in a local community clinic, you and your carer are able to contact the community heart failure specialist nurse team directly.

We very much value feedback from all of our patients, and may ask you to complete a satisfaction questionnaire after your appointment.

The service operates Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm excluding bank holidays.

However if you would like to speak to a generalist nurse at the weekends or out of hours, please call our Community Co-ordination Centre on 01483 362 020.