Simple £15 Blood Test A father claims his GP failed to give him a simple £15 blood test which could have saved him from suffering heart failure at the age of 39. Nick Hartshorne-Evans spent five weeks visiting his doctor with breathlessness and swollen ankles – classic symptoms of the condition – but was sent away with cough […]

Our Heart Failure Community Share the Impact of Heart Failure, Their Self Care Priorities, How They Feel, and What They Want from Future Medical Therapy, with our New Living with Heart Failure Infographic. We asked our heart failure community how they feel about heart failure, in a 5-minute poll, enabling insight and opening the door […]

Getting Flu Vaccine Cuts Risk of Death by Half in People with Heart Failure For people with heart failure, getting a seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine in a given year was associated with a 50 percent drop in the risk of death during flu season and a 20 percent drop in the risk of death during […]

Heart Failure Infographic makes Heart Failure clearer for everyone Heart failure is a syndrome caused by many different reasons. We have produced this heart failure infographic to help people understand – What it is What are the common symptoms of heart failure What are the common causes of heart failure Some facts and figures around […]

Twitter Disco is Back for Heart Month The Pumping Marvellous Foundation are delighted and honored to host #TwitterDisco for Heart Month and we can’t wait for you to join us on the dancefloor. Let your hair down, enjoy yourself and take some time out to refresh, revive and replenish at our movie-themed spectacular. It’s time to […]

Top 5: 2017 Most Read As 2017 draws to a close, browse Pumping Marvellous’ Top 5 2017 most read pages and downloads: Heart Failure Toolkits Download Pumping Marvellous’ series of Heart Failure Toolkits which help patients and carers self manage their condition better. Written by patients for patients. Medications for Heart Failure When you have heart […]

We Wish You a Pumping Marvellous Christmas and a New Year Filled with Ho Ho HOPE Pumping Marvellous Christmas from all the team at The Pumping Marvellous Foundation.   Remember to join our 12 Marvellous Days Of Christmas on YouTube [PMTVliveHF] for  a Pumping Marvellous Christmas, of fun celebrity impersonations and a self care tip […]

The Pumping Marvellous Foundation, the UK’s Heart Failure Charity Recognise the Impact of One Man’s Contribution to People Living with Heart Failure Paul Heesom, Warrington Businessman, Awarded Fundraiser of the Year 2017 Warrington, Cheshire, Thursday 7th December 2017 – The Management Team from The Pumping Marvellous Foundation paid a surprise visit to Paul Heesom’s Gents […]

Heart Failure Health Care Professional recognised for marvellous quality of care by the UK’s Heart Failure charity. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation awards “THE ROY AWARD” for outstanding contribution to Heart Failure services. Dr Lisa Anderson Heart Failure Cardiologist based at St George’s University Hospitals Foundation Trust, Tooting – Wins National Roy Award Preston, Lancashire, December […]

Marvellous Heart Failure Awards 2018 Heart Failure Health Care Professionals recognised for marvellous quality of care by the UK’s Heart Failure charity. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation awards UK Health Care Professionals for being simply marvellous. Preston, Lancashire, December 2017 – Health Care Professionals throughout the UK have been recognised and honoured by patients for their exceptional […]

Heart Transplant Success -The Impact of Dr Barnard Fifty Years On – Heart failure patient Sarah shares her thoughts on the enormous impact of the game-changing, world’s-first heart transplant achievement in 1967 and says thank you for the bravery and skills, still giving us hope today. “It’s hard to believe that it was fifty years […]

The Med Tech Group are calling on NHS England to rethink ‘sticking plaster’ approach to medical technology. A report, launched today, has identified how better use of medical technology can help the Government save up to £476m in welfare spending through improved use of medical technology. The Medical Technology Group have updated the 2011 study on […]

Earlier Access to New Therapies in the NHS PATIENTS TO GET BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES AND TREATMENTS UP TO FOUR YEARS EARLIER THROUGH NEW ACCELERATED ACCESS SCHEME Does this mean earlier access? – A new, fast-track route into the NHS for “breakthrough” medicines and technologies has been announced by the Government in a bid to dramatically speed […]

Is this Heart Failure’s Decade? Heart Failure has been the classic “Cinderella Syndrome”, under invested, under resourced. The vast majority of the public don’t know what it is. Until the Pumping Marvellous Foundation, formed in 2013 as a registered charity, there has never been a successful orchestrated attempt to advocate for the patient. Naturally you […]

Read why Paul Heesom is braving crocodile-infested waters for our heart failure charity this month with a global adventure, the Pumping Marvellous Zambezi Blast On September 9th, Paul Heesom begins a week-long trip to push his boundaries, on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure in aid of people living with heart failure across the UK, on his epic […]