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Written by Patients for Patients

Pumping Marvellous was a vision created by Nick Hartshorne-Evans and the East Lancashire Heart Failure Team. Nick was diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy caused by a virus. At 39 he was one of the youngest people in the East Lancashire Primary Care Trust to suffer from this condition but with the Heart Failure Nurse Team Manager Angela Graves they both decided that awareness is better than denial. This site tells of Nick Hartshorne-Evans’s journey from symptoms to understanding and management of the condition. It gives a Patients slant on Heart Failure and that the description does not accurately portray the condition.

Our challenge is to offer an innovative service that inspires Heart Failure patients to be aware of their condition it’s effects and how to self-manage more effectively thus preventing acute hospitalisation. If we achieve this then it will reduce costs throughout the care chain whilst adding another element of improvement to Heart Failure care. We are nimble and can therefore react without having to go through layers of authority thus reacting appropriately.

Patients of the East Lancashire Primary Care Trust also regularly input into Pumping Marvellous so it should give you a relaxed and informative read.

Clinical input and accuracy is managed by Angela and her Heart Failure Team, Deborah Taylor and Fran from The Royal Blackburn Coronary Care Unit and Dr Emily Ho who leads Heart Failure in the East Lancashire Primary Health Care Trust. Input will also be received from the Consultant Cardiologists at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.