The service is comprised of Consultants specialising in heart failure, Specialist Registrars and heart failure nurse specialists. They provide advice and management for inpatients as well as offering multiple outpatient clinics
The service works with the wider multidisciplinary team, including community heart failure nursing teams, physiologist, physiotherapists, pharmacists and clinical psychologists.
Service contact details
Covers LGI and St James’
Services
The team provides a range of services covering both inpatient and outpatient care.
Heart Failure Outreach Service
Predominantly run by specialist nurses, this is a Monday to Friday service for any patient with new or decompensated heart failure.
Nurses undertake a clinical assessment of the patient and provide a management plan that covers diagnosis, medication, further investigations and follow up requirements. The nurses also provide education to the patients and their family/carers
Ambulatory Heart Failure Unit
This service is run Monday to Friday by specialist nurses and offers intravenous diuretics as a day case to either aid early discharge from hospital or to avoid admission altogether.
The service also offers IV Iron infusion for patients who are iron deficient.
Outpatient clinics
Multiple heart failure clinics run across the week for diagnosis or to provide ongoing care.
Combined Heart Failure and Devices clinic (CHAD)
This specialist clinic has both a cardiac physiologist to optimise the patient complex pacing device as a well as specialist nurses to assess patient and their medications.
Meet the Team
A multi-disciplinary team comprising of doctors, nurses and other allied Health Professionals.
Information for Patients
Below are links to recommend sources of information as well as support groups.
Useful Contact Information
Below are links to recommend sources of information as well as support groups.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Heart failure Nurses
Admin: 0113 3925645