Acute heart failure

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart Failure Lead

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

London

UK

Biography

RB was a specialist advisor to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on chronic heart failure in adults.

Disclosures

RB has received honorarium/speaker fees from Novartis and Boehringer Ingleheim.

Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow

Imperial College London

Specialist Registrar in Cardiology

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

London

UK

Disclosures

ADH declares that he has no competing interests.

Best Practice would like to gratefully acknowledge the previous expert contributor, whose work is retained in parts of the content:

Syed Wamique Yusuf, MBBS, FACC, FRCPI

Professor of Medicine

Department of Cardiology

University of Texas

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston

TX

Lead Section Editor, BMJ Best Practice

Disclosures

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Section Editor, BMJ Best Practice

Disclosures

AS declares that she has no competing interests.

Lead Section Editor, BMJ Best Practice

Disclosures

RW declares that she has no competing interests.

Comorbidities Editor, BMJ Best Practice

Disclosures

JC declares that she has no competing interests.

Drug Editor, BMJ Best Practice

Disclosures

AM declares that he has no competing interests.

Consultant, Older People's Medicine

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals

NHS Foundation Trust

Norwich

UK

Disclosures

MP is a contributor to the Oxford Textbook of Otolaryngology, Oxford University Press, 2021, having written a chapter about mental capacity law, for which he received no fee. MP is the NHS representative on the board for Norwich Institute for Healthy Ageing (unpaid role). MP has spoken at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, virtual conference in November 2020 for which he received no fee.

Consultant Nephrologist

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Professor of Nephrology (honorary)

University of Birmingham

Birmingham

UK

Disclosures

PC is president of UK Kidney Association (UKKA), which is the professional organisation that supports healthcare professionals involved in care for, and research, innovation and education in, kidney disease. UKKA has a broad remit with relationships with multiple partners and includes responsibility for UK Kidney Week, the major educational meeting for UK kidney professionals. PC holds grant funding from Kidney Research UK in areas related to chronic kidney disease, and has recently (within the last 3 years) held grants from the EU, NIHR, and MRC in research in areas related to chronic kidney disease. PC has a non-remunerated research partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim into the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease. PC is author of the BMJ Learning module on chronic kidney disease.

Consultant Cardiologist and Heart Failure Lead

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science and NIHR Research Scholar and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

University of Liverpool

Liverpool

UK

Disclosures

RS has research grants from the British Heart Foundation, the NIHR, NHSX (Transformation Agency), AstraZeneca, Biotronik, and the University of Liverpool. RS has received speaker fees/honoraria and travel reimbursement for conferences from AstraZeneca, Novartis, Vifor, Medtronic, Biotronik, Pfizer, Daaichi Sankyo, and Boehringer. RS has been appointed to: NHS England PIFU Pathway Committee for Heart Failure (2021); British Society for Heart Failure Digital Pathway, Discharge and Virtual Ward Pathway panels; British Cardiac Society Digital and Communications Committee (2020); NIHR Research Scholar (Feb 2020); Clinical Advisory Board of UK’s patient-led charity Pumping Marvellous (2020); and NHS England HF Virtual Ward committee.

Associate Professor (Clinical)

University of Leicester

Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician

Glenfield Hospital

Leicester

UK

Disclosures

RAE has given lectures for non-promotional industry-led sessions on long COVID and provided consultancy for GSK, AstraZeneca, Boehringer, and Chiesi, for individual payment and travel expenses totalling <£4000.

Consultant Physician and Head of Service

Diabetes and Endocrine Centre and the Diabetes Research Unit

Ipswich Hospitals NHS Trust

Ipswich

UK

Disclosures

GR received funding from Novo Nordisk in 2022 to attend the EASD conference. GR undertakes several research projects on behalf of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust for pharmaceutical companies which are on the NIHR portfolio (he does not receive payment himself for these). GR has received lecture fees from Abbott Diabetes UK and Lilly UK.

Consultant Liaison Neuropsychiatrist

King’s College Hospital

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

King’s College London

London

UK

Disclosures

SP declares that he has no competing interests.

Consultant Geriatrician

Bunbury Regional Hospital

Western Australia Country Health Service

Bunbury

Western Australia

Visiting Professor

University of Cumbria

Carlisle

Honorary Clinical Associate Professor

University of Liverpool

Liverpool

UK

Disclosures

AA has a limited company that is seeking consultancy work offering reviews of healthcare services, facilitation of workshops, advice/review of publications. AA has received honorariums for giving lectures on behalf of Profile Pharma in 2021. AA was invited to be on a panel at the British Society for Heart Failure conference in 2022 with all expenses paid and has been invited to contribute to the European Union geriatric medicine conference (free conference registration) and British Society for Heart Failure conference (accommodation and travel expenses covered) in 2022. AA sat on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Quality Standards Committee on urinary tract infections in adults as an expert committee member in 2022 and is Deputy Chair of the British Geriatrics Society England Council and Ageing Specialty Research Lead CRN NWC. AA has received research funding from the Liverpool CCG and Applied Research Collaborative 2021-2022. AA contributed to developing a heart failure pathway tool for the British Society for Heart Failure in 2022. AA sits on advisory committees for the following research studies - VOICE2 (development and testing of communication skills training for hospital healthcare practitioners caring for people living with dementia), SWOP (social work in older people), and CFIN (cognitive frailty interdisciplinary network) 2022 -2023.

BMJ Best Practice would like to gratefully acknowledge Professor Sanjay Agrawal, National Speciality Advisor for tobacco dependency at NHS England and Chair of Royal College of Physicians tobacco advisory group, for his advice on the comorbidity content for 'current smoker'.

Professor Sanjay Agrawal, MBChB, FRCP

Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Leicester

UK

Disclosures

SA declares that he has no competing interests.