In a position statement issued by the British Society for Heart Failure (BSH, 2021), the author said that keeping heart failure specialist services intact would:
... mitigate the significant risk to those living with heart failure and prevent unnecessary pressure on other healthcare providers. The pandemic has already taught us that we need to maintain service provision for this highly vulnerable cohort.’
A statement which has hit home as cases of Covid-19, fuelled by the latest variant, continue to rise.