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Introduction In 2007, The Healthcare Commission reviewed services for patients with heart failure in England.1 Their report rated the health communities in Sheffield as weak. This resulted from poor scores in the following areas: diagnosis, waiting times, evidence-based treatment, referral to a heart failure service, collection of audit data, and high mortality and emergency admission rates. As a result, a service improvement group at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT) was formed. The group proposed the formation of a new heart failure service with a vision to be fulfilled. Within the first year, we demonstrated signifi