Types of healthcare professionals

Our healthcare professionals do many different jobs, but there's one thing they're united in: the inspiration they get from their patients. We caught up with some of the best at our Healthcare Professional Exceptional Performance Awards 2011. Watch the video

There are many types of healthcare professionals you may come across as part of your treatment - some of them might even be supported by us!

Some of the healthcare professionals we support include:

• Heart failure specialist nurses
• Paediatric cardiac liaison nurses
• GUCH (grown-ups with congenital heart disease) nurses
• Arrhythmia specialist nurses
• Genetic cardiac specialist nurses
• Heart failure palliative care specialist nurses
• Community resuscitation development officers
• Cardiac physiologists
• Echo technicians 
• Acute coronary syndrome nurses
• Bereavement counsellors
• Pharmacists
• Cardiac liaison nurses
• Cardiac rehabilitation nurses

BHF funded healthcare professionals

As part of our long-term committment to improving patient care, we support a number of healthcare professionals. They provide expert care, support and education for heart patients in the community, hospitals and their homes.