TY - JOUR T1 - Integrated palliative care in the management of advanced heart failure JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 95 LP - 96 DO - 10.7861/fhj.9-2-s95 VL - 9 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Adebisi Oduwole AU - Joel Allotey AU - Elizabeth Romer AU - Tanina Younsi AU - Maisha Shahid AU - Mahum Waheed AU - Rowan Hall AU - Maria Herbert Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/Suppl_2/95.abstract N2 - Heart failure (HF) remains a progressive and highly symptomatic disease that places great demands on patients, caregivers, and healthcare systems. Heart failure affects about 900,000 people in the UK with 60,000 new cases yearly and accounts for about 2% of the total NHS budget.1,2 Studies have shown that an integrated-palliative care approach to managing heart failure will reduce hospital admissions, provide a better experience for patients and carers, support people when their condition becomes more advanced and enable them to have more choice regarding their end-of-life care.3–5 However, despite growing numbers of guidelines from major cardiology societies including the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and British Heart … ER -