The LCP Heart Failure project has been running since 2005

The specific aims of the LCP Heart Failure project are:

• To determine transferability of the generic Version 11
• To undertake an implementation pilot in up to 10 hospital settings delivering care via the LCP to patients dying from heart failure within a specialist heart unit / ward in the last hours and days of life.
• To determine the need for supportive documentation / information for healthcare professionals.
• To determine the need for supportive documentation / information for patients / carers
• To determine specific guidance for health care professionals and patients and carers re the Management of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD's)
• To collate a final report in support of a dissemination model for the use of the LCP in patients with heart failure in the last hours / days of life.

Final Report due Summer 2008

Please click here to be linked to the new LCP Non-Cancer Briefing Paper, July 2008