Scottish Heart Failure Nurse Forum

31/08/2026

31/08/2026

31/08/2026

NEW 2026 on Cardiac Rehabilitation 👇
https://ow.ly/uqze50ZGoc2

24/08/2026

Appreciate your support 💖💕💖

Today, we're handing the decision over to you.

Over the past eight weeks, The Sunday Post has featured eight extraordinary nominees in the People's Choice Award category of the BHF Scotland Heart Hero Awards. Each has demonstrated incredible determination, compassion and commitment to helping people affected by heart and circulatory diseases.

Now it's time for the public to choose their winner.

Our 2026 People's Choice Award nominees are:

❤️ The University of Edinburgh - Pack for Good
❤️ Gordon Robertson
❤️ Graham Smith
❤️ Hector Emslie
❤️ Iain Sinclair
❤️ Klondyke Garden Centre - KLONDYKE GROUP LIMITED
❤️ Scarlett Dougan
❤️ Scottish Heart Failure Nurse Forum

From lifesaving interventions and inspirational personal journeys to community fundraising, sustainable giving and outstanding patient care, every nominee has made a remarkable impact.

🗳️ Cast your vote here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUWfCS5J

⏰ Voting closes on Sunday 30 August.

Read more about all of our nominees in The Sunday Post and help us celebrate the people and organisations making a real difference across Scotland.

A huge thank you to our media partner The Sunday post and our Heart Hero Award partner Laings Jewellers

❤️

23/08/2026

Every nominee listed is doing such amazing work towards improving cardiac care 💖💯💖

But tonight, we are a little biased.

Please click to support our nomination 🔗👉..

The Scottish Heart Failure Nurse Forum represents the army of amazing specialist nurses looking after those with heart failure in Scotland. This award recognises the value of our united voice to promote and develop our specialist role, for services to remain sustainable and for each health board to ensure that key components of care are protected, ensuring the highest quality Specialist Nursing care 💖♥️💖

Today, we're handing the decision over to you.

Over the past eight weeks, The Sunday Post has featured eight extraordinary nominees in the People's Choice Award category of the BHF Scotland Heart Hero Awards. Each has demonstrated incredible determination, compassion and commitment to helping people affected by heart and circulatory diseases.

Now it's time for the public to choose their winner.

Our 2026 People's Choice Award nominees are:

❤️ The University of Edinburgh - Pack for Good
❤️ Gordon Robertson
❤️ Graham Smith
❤️ Hector Emslie
❤️ Iain Sinclair
❤️ Klondyke Garden Centre - KLONDYKE GROUP LIMITED
❤️ Scarlett Dougan
❤️ Scottish Heart Failure Nurse Forum

From lifesaving interventions and inspirational personal journeys to community fundraising, sustainable giving and outstanding patient care, every nominee has made a remarkable impact.

🗳️ Cast your vote here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUWfCS5J

⏰ Voting closes on Sunday 30 August.

Read more about all of our nominees in The Sunday Post and help us celebrate the people and organisations making a real difference across Scotland.

A huge thank you to our media partner The Sunday post and our Heart Hero Award partner Laings Jewellers

❤️

16/07/2026

Delighted to share that our amazing SHFNF has been nominated at the upcoming BHF Heart Hero Awards ceremony to be held on 11th September. We follow in the very clear footsteps of our trailblazer Lynda Blue.

This is her legacy 💔♥️💔

A nurs­ing forum set up 20 years ago that improves the lives of thou­sands of people with heart con­di­tions has been nom­in­ated for a Heart Hero Award. The Scot­tish Heart Fail­ure Nurse Forum (SHFNF) is short­l­is­ted for Clini­cian of the Year in...

08/06/2026

Interesting read for more selective prescribing practice

A international trial reveals that a traditional post-heart attack treatment offers no real benefit — and actually harms many patients.

For over forty years, discharging heart attack survivors with a prescription for beta-blockers has been an unquestioned standard of care designed to lower blood pressure and ease the heart's workload.

However, the international REBOOT trial, which tracked more than 8,400 patients in Italy and Spain, has dramatically challenged this protocol. Focusing on survivors whose heart function remained relatively healthy after an attack, researchers discovered that those taking beta-blockers saw no reduction in their risk of death, subsequent heart attacks, or hospitalizations for heart failure compared to those who did not take them.

Crucially, a subgroup analysis revealed a troubling gender disparity: women with normal heart function who received beta-blockers actually faced a higher risk of adverse cardiac events, emphasizing the urgent need to transition away from one-size-fits-all prescription practices.

This shifting utility of beta-blockers is largely driven by rapid advances in modern cardiology, where swift artery-clearing procedures, powerful statins, and advanced blood thinners now perform the therapeutic heavy lifting.

While beta-blockers remain crucial for patients with heart failure or abnormal rhythms, the study urges doctors to be far more selective.

source: Ibáñez, B., Latini, R., Rossello, X., et al. Beta-Blockers after Myocardial Infarction without Reduced Ejection Fraction. New England Journal of Medicine.