Who Are The Key Health Professionals I Will Interact With?

This video helps you understand the key people in your health care team and how you can optimise your care through these professionals. Click on the video to play it.

Key points from the video:

Following heart failure, you may talk to a number of health professionals for different aspects of your health.

The main health professionals you will see are:

• General Practitioner: Main healthcare provider, can refer you to other health professionals

• Cardiologist or Medical Specialist: Answer questions about your condition

• Heart Failure Nurse: Provide educational support, medication checks, clinical checks

• Cardiac Rehabilitation: Provide educational support, design exercise programs for you

• Pharmacist: Answer questions about your medications

• Physiotherapist or Exercise Physiologist: Provide a supervised exercise program