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Introduction When COVID-19 struck, changing not only how we work as clinicians, but how patients wish their care to be managed, it provided the necessary impetus to undertake such transformation work. During the pandemic an estimated 23,000 diagnoses of heart failure (HF) were missed with an associated 44% drop in referrals for diagnostic echocardiography compared with 2019.1 During a six-week period of the second wave, another study found that there was a 41% decline in HF-related admissions and a 34% decline in heart attack admissions.2 Such reductions in admissions were seen during the first wave and were noted to contribute to more than 2

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