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- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
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- Cardiology
- Children’s Community Nursing
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecological Cancer – Genetic Testing
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nuclear Medicine
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
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- Stroke Care
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
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- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
Heart failure
The Sandwell and West Birmingham acute heart failure team consists of six Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialists and one admin support who work across Sandwell and City Hospitals.
They work alongside the community heart failure team, based at The Lyng, in West Bromwich, who hold regular clinics within GP surgeries and also see patients at home.
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Team
The Heart Failure team, both acute and community, provide patient support and education on coping with their diagnosis.
Services
We provide specialist nursing for the management, support and education of patients with chronic heart failure. We work closely with cardiologists (heart specialists) and lead physicians, treating patients at all stages of coping with heart failure.
Within the community, we care for patients with a combination of home visits and telephone contact. We also provide community clinics where patients are seen in a general practice or health centre by a specialist nurse.
Both the acute and community service assess patients and help them with:
- Managing their medications
- Lifestyle support
- Psychological support
- Blood tests
- Electro-cardiograms (recording electrical activity in the heart)
We aim to provide care for all patients who are diagnosed with heart failure. We work closely with other professionals to improve the outcomes for patients with heart failure, and reduce hospital stays.
Patient Stories
Please feel free to share your experiences of this service. Please e-mail your views to swbh.comms@nhs.net
Patient Information
Patient information leaflets
Community Heart Failure Service
Contacts
Acute:
Acute Heart Failure team
C/O Cardiology Secretaries office
2nd Floor
Sandwell General Hospital
Lyndon
West Bromwich
B71 4HJ
Telephone: 0121 507 5689/3836
Community:
Sandwell Community Heart Failure Team
4th Floor
The Lyng Centre for Health and Social Care
Frank Fisher Way
West Bromwich
B70 7AW
Telephone (message taking service): 0121 507 2664 (option 3)