Heart Failure Association position papers – a new way to advance the field

National Heart Failure Societies Summit 2020

“…Professor Coats mentioned the role of HFA Scientific Committees to elaborate position papers and consensus documents, some of these with a substantial impact on current HF care 1–9 . These documents are produced as the result of a large collaborative effort 10 and represent the coordinated work of the HFA in bringing together the considered views of its appointed experts on a range of new, emerging, contentious, or complicated matters. Also, HFA's intention to publish the ESC Textbook on Heart Failure in early 2022 was shared with the National Societies, an idea that was very well received and strongly supported.…”

“…Professor Coats mentioned the role of HFA Scientific Committees to elaborate position papers and consensus documents, some of these with a substantial impact on current HF care. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] These documents are produced as the result of a large collaborative effort 10 and represent the coordinated work of the HFA in bringing together the considered views of its appointed experts on a range of new, emerging, contentious, or complicated Professor Petar Seferović, Vice President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), discussed the HF Atlas programme which is one of the hallmark initiatives of the HFA. He described HFA Atlas as an excellent example of cooperation between HFA and national HF societies, since the collection of the data was entirely based on voluntary contributions from NHFS/HF working groups.…”