The HeartLife Foundation has developed a charter outlining the rights and responsibilities of people living with heart failure, which aims to drive a new national standard of best-practice care.
The British Society for Heart Failure uses a tailored approach to engage and build strong relationships with parliamentarians in the UK.
An expert multidisciplinary group in Spain developed a white paper making the case for multidisciplinary and integrated heart failure care, which led to the prioritisation of heart failure in a national cardiovascular health strategy.
In Portugal, a multidisciplinary expert group developed a consensus on how to improve heart failure policy and care, as the first step towards establishing a national strategy on the syndrome.