Meet Liana and her pioneering heart care van that delivers care closer to home
Today we celebrate World Heart Day, and it’s also close to the first anniversary of a pioneering heart care van, that delivers care closer to home.
Today we celebrate World Heart Day, and it’s also close to the first anniversary of a pioneering heart care van, that delivers care closer to home.
In the UK someone dies from a heart or circulatory disease every three minutes.
Liana Shirley, Advanced Imaging Specialist with the Heart Failure Community Clinics, helps saves lives by hitting the roads of North Wales in a purpose built van, which has been kitted out with diagnostics equipment, which is used to assess patients who have suspected heart failure.
The aim of the van, funded by the North Wales NHS charity, Awyr Las, is to offer a community-based service to facilitate the care of patients, with the aim of preventing them from having to go into hospital-saving thousands of hospital admissions.
This vital one-stop service ensures that patients who are vulnerable with suspected heart failure can still have access to a diagnosis. Liana has been invited to talk about her pioneering project across the UK, by health boards and charities keen to hear more.
The Community cardiology diagnostic vehicle has also been shortlisted in the Improving health and wellbeing category in the NHS Wales Awards 2022. Good luck to Liana and her amazing team!
To donate to Awyr Las the North Wales NHS Charity please click here.