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This interactive workshop is for healthcare professionals working in primary care to upskill in delivering a heart failure regular review

Target audience

This interactive online workshop is specifically tailored towards generalist members of the multidisciplinary team who will deliver (depending on their role) either structured medication reviews or long term condition heart failure reviews in primary care.

Why should you attend?

NHS England have released changes to the GP Contract 26/27 and there is a new indicator to support prescribing of the four pillars of therapy for people living with Heart Failure with reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF).

Overview

This online workshop will give you all the tools you need to increase your confidence in supporting this new QoF indicator as well as in delivering regular heart failure reviews in clinical practice.

The content will focus on a general update on heart failure, the different heart failure phenotypes, guidelines directed medical therapy for each phenotype and how to deliver a regular review as outlined by NICE NG 106.

There will also be an opportunity for Q&A to answer heart failure queries.

Aim

The aim of this study day is to support healthcare professionals to develop their knowledge and skills to provide a person centred approach to a delivering a regular heart failure review.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this online workshop, you will

• have an increased confidence in recognising the signs and symptoms of heart failure

• be able to describe the appropriate referral of people with suspected heart failure

• recognise and be able to summarise the management of different heart failure phenotypes

• apply appropriate coding for people living with heart failure

• apply a person centred, evidence-based approach to regular heart failure reviews

• describe how to identify when an advance care planning conversation is needed

Speakers

• Michelle Young – Heart Failure Nurse Specialist, Leeds West PCN
• Dr Kate Gatenby – Consultant Cardiologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Prework

Prior to attending the online workshop there is a small amount of pre-work to do: Access the Heart Failure Academy ‘Navigating the heart failure journey map’ and watch the associated videos.

• To help you plan your work, there are eight ‘stops’ on the map, which each house a bite sized video ranging in length from two minutes to 30 minutes.
• Please ensure you watch the Heart Failure Review in Stop 7 Clinical Management
• The content of the online workshop will assume you have accessed the map and watched these videos.