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Founder and CEO of Lancashire-based UK Heart Failure Charity in “New Years Honours” list.

 Nick Hartshorne-Evans, the Founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation, the UK’s heart failure charity based in Preston, has been named in the New Year’s Honours list, receiving a British Empire Medal for his contributions to heart failure.

The Pumping Marvellous Foundation, a national charity, was established by Nick Hartshorne-Evans in 2010 in East Lancashire after he received a diagnosis of heart failure at the age of 39.

The charity began by working with heart failure patients in East Lancashire, offering support through face-to-face meetings and supplying information to those diagnosed with heart failure in the region.

The charity has rapidly transformed into the UK’s Heart Failure Charity, guided by patients and their families affected by heart failure. It collaborates locally with NHS teams and functions as an expert patient organisation with NHS England at the national level, along with NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), ensuring that patient insights shape national policy decisions regarding heart failure. The charity assists thousands of patients through its online support groups while distributing over 300,000 patient education booklets to NHS teams each year.

Nick Hartshorne-Evans says

“I am shocked and immensely proud of what we have accomplished. Heart failure affects 1 million people across the UK, with 200,000 new diagnoses each year. It has been underfunded for many years, impacting countless individuals. With an effective patient-led charity, we can ensure that patients’ needs are represented at the policy level.

If we can help individuals live better with their heart failure and ensure they receive appropriate treatments and care, we can enhance the health outcomes for many patients and their affected families.

Personally, founding the charity was a personal mission to assist individuals like me who have been affected by this severe, debilitating condition. It is not a career but an avocation. Considering our impact and success, we have never sought awards; however, I am humbled to receive the British Empire Medal on behalf of those who have supported us over the years. Our focus on helping individuals live with heart failure remains unwavering.

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 Pumping Marvellous Website

 BEAT HF national campaign

 The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK’s heart failure charity. Insights drive all its activities. It gathers these insights from its support groups and the tens of thousands of patients and family members it connects with each year. The charity has an operational team based at its offices in Preston, Lancashire, a Trustee Team, an Expert Clinical Advisory Board, and a Patient Educator Committee. It currently has a national heart failure awareness campaign in BEAT HF.