Heart Failure Community of Practice

Improving advanced heart failure care together

St Christopher's CARE

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  • 18 Nov, 2026
  • 6 sessions over the year, 1.5 hours each
  • £50 +VAT
  • Online

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How confident do you feel managing the challenges of advanced heart failure?

We’re delighted to invite you to join a new Heart Failure Community of Practice, developed by St Christopher’s Hospice and Queen’s University Belfast. 

Our Heart Failure service, including this Community of Practice, is being generously funded by the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust and NIHR.

Designed for clinicians caring for people living with advanced heart failure, this six-session virtual programme offers a unique opportunity to connect with colleagues from across the world, share experiences, explore challenges and learn from experts in the field. The aim of this community is to help clinicians confidently integrate palliative approaches into heart failure support and services.

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The Heart Failure Community of Practice has been created by St Christopher’s Hospice and Queen’s University Belfast to bring together clinicians with a shared commitment to improving care for people living with advanced heart failure. Through interactive discussions, case-based learning and practical insights, participants will:

  • Improve confidence in symptom management and supportive care
  • Explore approaches to meaningful conversations and future care planning
  • Learn from expert speakers and those with lived experience
  • Share ideas, resources and examples of good practice
  • Build connections across specialties and organisations

Designed for clinicians across heart failure and palliative care, this community of practice is suitable for:

  • Heart Failure Consultants
  • Heart Failure Specialist Nurses
  • Palliative Medicine Consultants
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Community and Hospice Teams
  • GPs and Primary Care Professionals
  • Urgent Care and Rapid Response Teams
  • District Nurses
  • Allied Health Professionals with an interest in advanced heart failure
Wednesday 16 September 20262 – 3.30pm BST
Wednesday 18 November 20262 – 3.30pm GMT
Wednesday 20 January 20272 – 3.30pm GMT
Wednesday 24 March 20272 – 3.30pm GMT
Wednesday 12 May 20272 – 3.30pm BST
Wednesday 14 July 20272 – 3.30pm BST

Dr Joy Ross

Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Christopher’s Dr Joy Ross trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medical School. She completed her PhD at Imperial College, London, studying the pharmacogenetics of response to opioids. She has worked as a Palliative Care Consultant at St Joseph’s Hospice, London and then at the Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Palliative Care Service. She is currently working at St Christopher’s Hospice with a specialist interest in developing palliative care services for the frail elderly and those with non-malignant disease including heart failure.
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Fiona Hodson

Consultant Nurse Fiona trained at Guy’s and St Thomas’. She initially worked at St Christopher’s Hospice with Dame Cicely Saunders. She then specialised in cardiology for 26 years including setting up cardiac rehab services, running cardiac support groups and as a valvular research nurse. She then worked as a heart failure CNS both in hospital and running clinics in GP practices. In 2005 she was part of a joint research project between palliative care and cardiology, exploring the palliative care needs of heart failure patients. She then moved to work as a community palliative care CNS at Guys. In 2017…
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Marie Cooper

Senior Nursing Advisor Celebrating Palliative Care Nursing Marie is a nurse with many years’ experience of clinical leadership with an expertise in practice development across a range of care settings. Having delivered change in her previous roles, she now loves working with both individuals and groups who want to develop themselves and their practice. Such opportunities have given her a clarity about the many complex and challenging issues nurses face today, be they practitioners or leaders, engaged in care delivery.
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