Heart Failure Special Interest Group (HFSIG)

We are a group of healthcare professionals with a passion for providing best practice directed care to people living with heart failure. The group includes, rural and urban practice nurses, acute demand nurses, cardiac nurse specialists, pharmacists, doctors and allied health professionals.

We meet every six weeks in Christchurch for education evenings on various aspects of heart failure care. The meetings are also available to attend over Zoom and recorded for later watching.

Presentations available to watch below include:

• Sleep health, sleep apnoea and cardiac health relationship, Sally Powell- Sleep Health NP
• Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, Julie Chirnside-NP Heart Failure

Upcoming presentations:

• April 7th – Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure Device therapy- Dr Ross Downey, Cardiologist

• June 9th – Pasifika considerations in heart failure care- Lisa Suapopo- Pasifika Health consultant, RN

• November 24th – Thyroid Health and Heart Failure Link- Dr Christy Macdonald- Endocrinologist

If you would like to attend these meetings in person or attend the live Zoom meetings, please email Sadie Ross.

The 4 pillars of HFrEF treatment

Held on: Monday 17th February 2025

Presented by: Dr Paul Bridgman – Cardiologist and Cardiology Clinical Director – Christchurch

Sleep health, sleep apnoea’s (OSA/CSA) and Cardiac health relationships

Held on: Monday 25th November 2024

Presented by: Sally Powell, Nurse Practitioner – Sleep Health and Ventilation Consultancy/Sleep Health Services

Palliative care considerations in heart failure

Held on: Monday 14th October 2024

Presented by: Dr Amanda Landers, Palliative care consultant and head of department for Medicine at Otago University

Assessment and management of dyspnoea in heart failure

Held on: Monday 12th August 2024

Presented by: Mindy Ward and Erin Morris – Respiratory CNS’s

Heart Failure, asthma and COPD

Held on: Monday 10th June 2024

Presented by: Dr Lutz Beckert, Respiratory Consultant

Heart Failure with preserved ejection fraction

Held on: Monday 8th April 2024

Presented by: Julie Chirnside, NP, Heart Function Clinic, CRISS

Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) management

Held on: Monday 12th February 2024

Presented by: Julie Chirnside, NP, Heart Function Clinic, CRISS

Heart failure medical management

Held on: Monday 11th December 2023

Presented by: Ev Tolerton, Cardiology Pharmacist Team Leader Te Whatu Ora

Depression screening and diabetes for people living with heart failure

Held on: Monday 9th October 2023

Presented by: Pamela Campbell, Nurse Practitioner – Rakaia Medical Centre