Heart Failure Service
Service Offer
- Education and support
- Initiation and Titration of HF (LVSD only) medications
- Home visits (for housebound patients only)
- Borough-wide clinic appointments
Accessing the service
- Tel: 01226 644575
- Email: rightcarebarnsleyintegratedspa@swyt.nhs.uk
Referral guidelines
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction
- Echocardiogram within the past 2 years
- Findings either moderate or severe
- A copy of the echocardiogram MUST be forwarded with this referral failure to supply this will result in the referral being rejected.
Exclusion Criteria
- If patient has no echocardiogram or the echocardiogram is older than two years old.
- Stable patients already on optimised treatment.
- Patient discharged from the Heart Failure Service within last 12 months with no symptom / medication changes within this time.
- Post MI patients that have NOT had a three month repeat echocardiogram.
- Stable patients with mild LVSD will not be accepted in the service, these patients will be expected to be managed by primary care.
- Patients on renal dialysis will NOT be accepted into the service.
- Patients aged under 18 years old and those NOT registered to a Barnsley GP practice and / or resident within the Barnsley geographical area.
- Patients diagnosed with right ventricular systolic dysfunction / preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) or diastolic heart failure
Updated: January 2025
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Clinical support group
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Cancer, Palliative Care, Pain and Older People
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Cardiovascular and Lipids
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Clinical support area
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Service type
- Cardiology
- Specialist community nursing
- Care of the elderly
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ProviderSouth West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Physical Health
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Telephone01226 644575
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Email address
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