Community Heart Failure Service
Main Address
- Hornsey Rise Health Centre
Hornsey Rise, London, N19 3YU - N19 5NF
- 020 7527 1719
- whh-tr.myheartfailurenurse@nhs.net
- Opening Hours
About the service
The Community Heart Failure Nurse Service (CHFNS) comprises of a team of specialist nurses skilled in the management of patients with heart failure.
The team comprises of Cardiologists at Whittington Health (WH), University College London Hospital (UCLH) and North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH).
The service offers:
- Heart failure management in the community to prevent admission/re-admission
- Patient reviews within two weeks after discharge from hospital following a heart failure admission
- A mix of clinics (see Locations), home visits and telephone consultations based on patient need
- Titrate medication to ensure patients are on maximum tolerated doses of evidence-based medications (NICE 2018/ESC 2021)
- Support with end-of-life care for heart failure patients
- Patient/families/carers education to assist with self-management
- Referrals back to the GP for routine care once the patient is stabilised.
- Heart failure health inequalities project for East Haringey with recent expansion to West Haringey (see more information about this below)
- Active case finding in collaboration with Connected Heart Care Pathway (CHCP) and Haringey Federation
Clinic locations
Islington
Hornsey Rise Health Centre
Hornsey Rise, London, N19 3YU
Hornsey Rise Health Centre
Hornsey Rise, London, N19 3YU
River Place Health Centre
River Place, London, N1 2DE
Goodinge Group Practice
20 North Road, London, N7 9EW
Haringey
Hornsey Central Neighbourhood Health Centre
151 Park Road, London, N8 8JD
Lordship Lane Primary Care Centre
239 Lordship Lane, London, N17 6AA
Bounds Green Health centre
Gordon Road London · N11 2PA
The Laurels Healthy Living Centre
256 St Ann's Road London · N15 5AZ
256 St Ann's Road London · N15 5AZ
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.
Referral
Further Information
Give Feedback on our service
- Are you a patient at Whittington Health who has been seen by our team out in the Community? Please complete the Community survey.
- Are you a patient at Whittington Health who is being seen under our Heart Failure Inequalities Haringey project? Please complete the survey.
The Community Heart Failure Inequalities service
The Community Heart Failure Inequalities service is an initiative for adults living with heart failure in Haringey’s most deprived communities. It meets a vital component of the population health strategy and aligns with NCL Core Offer requirements.
The service provision allows for the proactive triaging of heart failure registers per GP surgery enabling for diagnosis review, confirmation via ECHO (echocardiogram), and heart failure register efficiency through maintenance and data cleansing.
This service is based on collaboration with acute trust, community providers, the Haringey GP Federation, and Voluntary Care Sector (VCS)partners though immersion within their activities and group sessions instead of the conventional clinic appointment offering. Patients are monitored and managed by a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) of nurses and allied health professionals, a Cardiologist, and support staff weekly.
Home visits for housebound service users and clinic appointments are available for symptom management, medication optimisation, and titration. The current service utilises the DNA (Did not attend), ED (Emergency Department) frequent attenders lists and in-patient service users for Heart Failure (HF) as a primary diagnosis with the aim of ensuring timely follow-up and reassessment and a long-term goal of expanding to Whittington Haringey area.