BEAT HF is the first UK-wide disease awareness campaign for heart failure and is targeted at the public and primary care healthcare professionals.

Professor Clare Taylor, Nick Hartshorne-Evans, and Dr Dargoi Satchi developed BEAT to improve awareness of heart failure through early recognition of common symptoms. The acronym BEAT leads to testing using a commonly available blood test, NT-proBNP, to rule out heart failure.

BEAT stands for:

Breathlessness

Exhaustion

Ankle swelling

Time for a simple blood test or Time to speak to your GP Surgery, depending on the setting.

Nick Hartshorne-Evans, CEO and Founder of The Pumping Marvellous Foundation, behind the BEAT campaign explains how it works.

Read the full interview here.