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In partnership with the Frimley and
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and
Berkshire West Integrated Care Boards

Lucy Girdler-Heald

Heart Failure Nurse Specialist, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Lucy is currently a heart function team leader. She has worked in all areas of cardiology since 1992 but soon realised her passion was in heart failure nursing and began working as a heart failure nurse in 2007. Lucy worked in various positions in the UK and Australia looking after the Aboriginal community. She is a founding committee member on the heart failure nurses forum for the Heart Failure Society and co-wrote the national heart failure nurse competencies which are now used nationwide. Lucy has published numerous articles about these and also cardiac rehab for heart failure patients.

10:00am: Greatest health gains – The CVD innovation opportunity