Today in Westminster at our Parliamentary event sponsored by Medtronic “Heart Failure: The Preventable NHS Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore” we launch our publication… “From Framework to Lifeline: How Pumping Marvellous turns the CVD MSF into Heart Failure Action” Earlier diagnosis matters most when it leads to earlier treatment—and a better life. Our attached booklet, From […]

Priority alert: Juliet Campbell MP intensifies scrutiny of heart failure diagnostic delays Juliet Campbell (Labour, Broxtowe) has tabled another highly specific parliamentary question, dated 9 October 2026, examining whether patients with suspected heart failure receive echocardiography within recommended diagnostic timescales. Campbell has asked the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what proportion of patients received […]

Event: 7 October 2026 Source: Best Practice Birmingham 2026 conference programme bestpracticeshow.co.uk The programme features “When knowledge becomes action: managing heart failure in primary care,” an interactive session on improving heart-failure identification, referral and optimisation of guideline-directed therapy. Speakers include Pumping Marvellous Foundation’s CEO Nick Hartshorne-Evans, NHS England CVD Prevention National Specialty Adviser Rani Khatib, Shannon Nickson of Leeds […]

The Alliance for Heart Failure have released a new report called Heart Failure: An Unsustainable National Health Emergency. The report examines and explores what this emergency looks like in the UK. Here is an excerpt from the report: “Across the UK, around one million people are living with a heart failure diagnosis and an estimated […]

28th September 2026 Tomorrow, on World Heart Day, the Pumping Marvellous Foundation and the Heart Failure Academy will launch Navigating the Heart Failure Journey in Primary Care: A Personalised Approach to Living Well at an invite-only event at the Leeds Armouries. Developed jointly for generalist multidisciplinary teams in primary care, the practical, evidence-based booklet brings the experience […]

Government explicitly backs AI-assisted echocardiography for earlier CVD diagnosis. Lord Taylor of Warwick received the Government’s answer on 22 September 2026 to his question about NHS adoption of AI for early detection of heart disease. Responding for DHSC, Baroness Merron confirmed that Government is exploring AI for earlier detection and diagnosis of CVD and specifically named AI-assisted […]

Juliet Campbell (Labour, Broxtowe) has now moved beyond speaking about heart failure in debate and has begun using written parliamentary questions to probe specific changes to the diagnostic pathway. On 18 September 2026, Health Minister James Frith answered two questions Campbell had tabled on 8 September 2026. Juliet asked firstly whether DHSC would pilot NT-proBNP point-of-care testing in community pharmacies for people […]

Alicia Kearns (Conservative, Rutland and Stamford) has now received the Government’s response to her parliamentary intervention on reform of vascular services, answered by Health Minister James Frith on 15 September 2026. This matters beyond vascular disease because the response gives a useful indication of how DHSC is beginning to talk about implementation of the new CVD Modern Service Framework. […]

A significant new heart failure development has emerged in Parliament.  It is well aligned with patient priorities. We have also been working with Juliet’s team along with sending a detailed letter to James Frith. Juliet Campbell MP (Labour, Broxtowe) used a Westminster Hall debate on 10 September 2026 to make a detailed intervention specifically on heart failure. […]

Pumping Marvellous Foundation Heart Failure Brief — 14th September 2026   Ziltivekimab heart-failure studies stopped early Novo Nordisk confirmed on 7th September 2026 that it had terminated two heart-failure studies of Ziltivekimab, an experimental monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-6 inflammation. The decision followed the unsuccessful phase III ZEUS study in more than 6,300 people with atherosclerotic […]

Pumping Marvellous Foundation Heart Failure Brief — 7th September 2026 The major development in recent weeks is the publication of the full 2026 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) heart failure guidelines, accompanied by the ESC’s first dedicated cardiac rehabilitation guidelines. Together, they strengthen our arguments around prevention, patient participation, rehabilitation access and flexible community delivery. […]

The Cardiovascular disease (CVD) modern service framework (MSF) from NHS England has been published. Below is an excerpt from the foreword to the framework. “Our response is a clear, bold mission: to cut premature deaths from heart disease and stroke by a quarter within a decade. This modern service framework, committed to in the 10 […]

The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is pleased to support The Other Side of Heart Failure, which highlights the need to improve recognition, diagnosis and care for people living with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), conditions that can remain under-recognised within current pathways. Heart failure is a major health challenge […]

Here is an excerpt from an article that mentions our Cardiac Rehab platform and how it is widening access to people who may not usually have access to a cardiac rehab programme. Read the full article here. “Early findings from two of the seven home-based digital cardiac rehabilitation platforms now in National Institute for Health and […]

An article in the European Heart Journal about our collaboration with Everton in the Community delivering free heart and lung checks at their BEAT Breathlessness Hub: “Breathlessness is a debilitating symptom affecting 10% of the adult population, rising to 25% in those over 70 years.1 Cardiopulmonary diseases account for the majority of the causes of breathlessness […]