Referrals to
Heart failure specialist nurses

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The British Heart Foundation Community Heart Failure Specialist nurses assess, support and advise people who have been diagnosed with heart failure, and support and advise their relatives and carers. Their aim is to improve patient outcomes and to prevent people being readmitted to hospital unnecessarily by providing expert care and support at home.

The nurses provide help for patients and their carers to manage a chronic condition including advice on medicines, exercise and diet, and end of life care; as well as specialist advice to health professionals.

• Service information (link to South Downs NHS website)

Inclusions

• Adults aged 18+
• Registered with a Brighton and Hove GP
• With a confirmed diagnosis of heart failure by Echocardiogram
  (if not please phone to discuss)

Please note that patients can be visited in nursing homes / residential care.

• Full referral criteria

How to refer

View the referral pathway then consider d/w Service. The form is required but not all fields need to be completed.

• Referral form
• Referral form - EMIS (95kb Word file)

Return referral form:
Fax: 01273 265596

Post:
Brighton General Hospital
Jevington 1
Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW

Contact details

Heart Failure Office: 01273 265595
Jeni Bayly: 07887994439
Gail Budgen: 07917246707
Jacqueline Hunt: 07748 144143 or the above office number, extension 3173

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