Heart Failure

Since 2015 the Health Board have provided a gold standard community heart service for patients with heart failure. 

The service saves lives; saves people from having to stay in General Hospitals; and saves the Health Board a lot of money.

There are approximately 8,000 known heart failure patients across north Wales, and its estimated that there's another 8,000 that are unknown.

These community clinics treat dozens of patients every month, and those in centres closer to their homes. The current service saves around £1.5m a year for the Health Board. Expaniding the service across the whole region could save them up to £5m in total a year.

Unfortunately the Board have failed to commit to the service's long term future, instead choosing to review it every six months. This means that the staff working in the service have no job certainty, resulting in staff moving on to other jobs and failure to recruit. This threatens the whole future of the service. 

The staff and patients need certainty. We are therefore calling on the Health Minister and the Health Board to provide that certainty by providing the long term funding necessary to maintain this world class service in north Wales.

Read more here.

Who's signing

Shirley Hand
Karen Littler
Blodeuwedd Tegid
Alun Ellis
Kathryn Pritchard Gibson
Claire Jones
Karen Sparrow
Kate Williams
Lesley Cain
Angela Hallam
Diane Lee
Sandra Hooson
Lydia Vallance
Sandra McKenzie
Lynda Ansell
Huw Lewis
bethan pugh
172 signatures

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  • Shirley Hand
    signed 2020-01-10 18:03:03 +0000
  • Karen Littler
    signed 2020-01-10 17:46:24 +0000
    My husband had a heart attack in Wales the service provider was excellent
  • Blodeuwedd Tegid
    signed 2020-01-10 17:31:12 +0000
  • Alun Ellis
    signed 2020-01-10 17:21:22 +0000
  • Kathryn Pritchard Gibson
    signed 2020-01-10 17:18:47 +0000
    This local Service is essential.
  • Claire Jones
    signed 2020-01-10 16:50:02 +0000
  • Karen Sparrow
    signed 2020-01-10 16:40:54 +0000
  • Kate Williams
    signed 2020-01-10 16:18:41 +0000
  • Lesley Cain
    signed 2020-01-10 16:13:54 +0000
  • Angela Hallam
    signed 2020-01-10 15:34:39 +0000
  • Diane Lee
    signed 2020-01-10 15:33:40 +0000
  • Sandra Hooson
    signed 2020-01-10 15:28:58 +0000
    This is a vital money & life saving service for the Residents of the Ysbyty Gwynedd Catchment area. It doesn’t make sense to axe it if it’s actually been proven to save Health Board money and save patients lives.!!!!

    Surely saving money starts with axing external Consultancy Firm/Person hired to look at ways of saving money when he/they haven’t set foot in any hospitals belonging to Health Board but charges extorniate amount for fees!!
  • Lydia Vallance
    signed 2020-01-10 15:27:50 +0000
  • Sandra McKenzie
    signed 2020-01-10 15:09:01 +0000
    Sandra McKenzie
  • Lynda Ansell
    signed 2020-01-10 15:06:26 +0000
    This service can & will save lives. We need this in our area as Dolgellau is so far away from main hospitals & by the time somebody with heart failure could get to a main hospital it could unfortunately be too late.
  • Huw Lewis
    signed 2020-01-10 15:02:11 +0000
  • bethan pugh
    signed 2020-01-10 15:02:06 +0000

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