Heart Failure and Beyond - Patient Fuelled Podcast

About Heart Failure and Beyond - Patient Fuelled Podcast

This Podcast has been brought to you by the Pumping Marvellous Foundation the UK's Heart Failure Charity. In our series of Podcasts, talking to people about heart failure, we look beyond the cardiologist and delve into what makes people tick, what’s their “Secret Sauce” the Elixir that drives people to overcome and conquer challenging situations in their life.

Publisher

Pumping Marvellous, the UK's Heart Failure Charity. Fuelled by patients.

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Sept 2022

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   The Primary Care Moment That Changes Everything | Heart Failure Unfiltered

   🔗 Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org 💬 Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join 💛 Donate £5 today and help someone feel less alone Corinne's fitness hid her heart failure. Katie kept going back to the same surgery with the same symptoms until she took herself to A&E. So how many times should somebody come back before you start looking somewhere else? In the second episode of a three-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with patient educators Katie and Corinne Hudson and pharmacist Shannon Nixon, who leads education at the Yorkshire and Humber Heart Failure Academy. The conversation is about the appointment itself, and what a healthcare professional can do inside ten minutes that changes where somebody ends up. Corinne's point is that nobody ever asked what her normal looked like. Katie's is that she stopped pushing because she felt she was disrespecting people who had trained for years. They talk about active listening and the question that comes after it, why patients self doubt themselves into silence, and what happens to people who have no advocate at all. Katie's brother, who is autistic, was diagnosed with the same heart condition last year, and it happened because Katie knew what to push for. In this episode: 00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers 01:00: Meet Katie, Corinne and Shannon 02:20: Their diagnoses in thirty seconds 03:20: What healthcare professionals should take from this 04:20: How many times should someone come back before you investigate? 05:20: Actively listening, and asking the next question 06:00: "What does your normal look like?" 09:10: Old fashioned doctoring, and seeing the passion 10:40: The background people nobody checks on 12:00: Why patient insight changes the training 15:50: Katie's brother, and who advocates for people without support 16:50: The self doubt that stops you pushing back 18:10: The opportunistic conversation that leads to escalation 20:10: 200 people a webinar, and word of mouth 🫀 If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you. ⚡ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test. #HeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAcademy #PrimaryCare #GeneralPractice #HeartFailureAwareness #KnowTheSymptoms #ActiveListening #PatientAdvocacy #EarlyDiagnosis #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #HeartDisease #UKCharity #YorkshireAndHumber #CardiologyCare

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Three 10Ks a Week, Then I Couldn't Walk Up the Stairs | Heart Failure Unfiltered

   🔗 Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org 💬 Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join 💛 Donate £5 today and help someone feel less alone In the first episode of a three-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Shannon Nixon of the Yorkshire and Humber Heart Failure Academy and patient educators Corinne Hudson and Katie. Between them, Katie and Corinne were told it was mental health, lifestyle, weight and anxiety. Corinne was testing her own urine, blood pressure and blood sugar at home because she knew something was wrong and nobody would say what. Katie's mum eventually called 111, and the operator sent an ambulance after listening to her try to speak. They talk about what the one appointment that worked actually did differently, why the waiting between scans was harder than the diagnosis itself, and how the Academy is building on BEAT to get heart failure onto the radar of generalists across Yorkshire and Humber. The cardiologist who saw Katie in A&E told her mum he wasn't sure how she was still standing. In this episode: 00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers 01:30: Meet Shannon, Corinne and Katie 02:30: Katie's symptoms, and everything they were put down to 05:00: Corinne was running three 10Ks a week 07:00: The one appointment that was different 08:20: The BEAT symptoms she had all along 09:40: Why generalists don't think heart failure first 11:30: The map the Heart Failure Academy created 14:00: What it felt like to finally have an answer 15:40: Marvellous myth buster, does heart failure only affect older adults? 16:40: The waiting, the ICD, and "my rebrand" 20:20: The 111 call Katie's mum made 22:00: Heart failure as the Cinderella syndrome 24:30: BEAT posters in every practice in Yorkshire and Humber 27:00: The booklet, and why knowledge is power 🫀 If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you. ⚡ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test. #HeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAcademy #PrimaryCare #HeartFailureAwareness #KnowTheSymptoms #EarlyDiagnosis #GeneralPractice #NTproBNP #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #ChronicIllness #HeartDisease #UKCharity #YorkshireAndHumber #CardiologyCare

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Can You Live Well With Heart Failure? | Heart Failure Unfiltered

   Sarah-Jane was diagnosed at 28 and is a heart failure nurse now. Corinne was heading towards a transplant conversation three years ago and is stable on the same medication. So what does getting your life back actually look like? In this final episode of a four-part series, Nick Hartshorne-Evans - founder and CEO of the Pumping Marvellous Foundation - sits down with Sarah-Jane, Katie and Corinne to ask whether you can build a good life while heart failure stays exactly where it is. Sarah-Jane calls it her reincarnation. Katie could not have children of her own, so she became the aunt whose sister has the kids packed and waiting before the sentence is finished. Corinne slowed down, misses her colleagues, and does not miss the stress. They talk about what "stable" actually means, the abandonment people describe when they are discharged from a specialist team back to primary care, and the postcode lottery that decides whether an echocardiogram takes two weeks or six months. Nick closes on a line he wrote down beforehand. Without inquisitiveness, managing heart failure is Russian roulette. No white coats. No jargon. Just people who've lived it. In this episode: 00:00: Welcome and what this episode covers 01:04: Marvellous myth buster, is extreme tiredness just age? 01:21: Meet Sarah-Jane, Katie and Corinne 02:45: Can you build a good life while heart failure stays? 04:19: "I like to think of heart failure as my reincarnation" 07:56: Is this life better than the one before? 11:15: Do you still see yourself as vulnerable? 14:44: Where the hope actually comes from 16:15: What does stable really mean? 17:16: Feeling abandoned when you go back to primary care 20:07: What we've each discovered about ourselves 22:53: The postcode lottery for an echocardiogram 25:36: Can you still live well, and what that phrase should mean 28:14: Nick's ABCD theory of patients 33:05: Without inquisitiveness, it's Russian roulette 🫀 If heart failure is part of your life, you don't have to face it alone. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is the UK's leading heart failure charity, patient-led, trusted, and here for you. ⚡ B.E.A.T. Breathlessness, Exhaustion, Ankle swelling, Time to tell your GP or nurse. If you have a combination of these, speak to your GP surgery. Heart failure is diagnosed with a simple blood test. 🔗 Visit: www.pumpingmarvellous.org 💬 Peer support, search "Help for Hearts" on Facebook and apply to join 💛 Donate £5 today and help someone feel less alone #HeartFailure #LivingWithHeartFailure #BEATHF #PumpingMarvellous #HeartFailureUnfiltered #HeartFailureAwareness #HeartFailureRecovery #Hope #SelfManagement #PeerSupport #ChronicIllness #PatientAdvocacy #CardiacCare #NHS #HealthAwareness #HeartHealth #HeartDisease #UKCharity #PublicHealth #CardiologyCare

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