We are committed to involving and engaging patients and people with lived experience of heart attack and heart failure throughout our research.
Our programme of patient and public involvement and engagement activities will support partnerships with individuals and patient and community organisations.
Our work is destined to have a direct impact on people living with heart attack and heart failure, their carers and families. These people have valuable lived experience that can help shape our research questions, approach and engagement.
We recognise the need to create space to listen and respond to the views of patient and community partners. Their voices are essential if new treatments and trials are to be trusted, adopted and transformative. Our researchers and clinicians will be supported to work with patients and charity partners equitably, to ensure our activites are sustainable and mutually beneficial.
We receive our funding from the UK government through the UKRI Medical Research Council, and from the British Heart Foundation. As public and charity organisations, both funders rightly expect us to engage and involve patient and community meaningfully in our work.
Governance
The work of our centre is overseen by an independent scientific advisory board, which will include individuals with lived experience of the diseases our advanced cardiac therapies seek to treat, and professional experience of involvement, engagement and communications in biomedical research.
Looking for advice?
We are primarily a research centre and can't comment on the circumstances of individual patients.
You may need to discuss topics with your own medical professionals, or contact a cardiac nurse through the BHF Heart Helpline.
Collaborators and networks
