Cardiologists recommend heart failure management strategy

Ireland’s cardiologists are recommending a strategy for hospital management of heart failure which they say will make more beds available.

The doctors claim 110,000 bed days can be saved if the care of heart patients is more structured.

Ken McDonald, a consultant cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, said: "By restructuring heart failure services within the hospital and in the early months after discharge we can significantly reduce the likelihood of this population coming back into hospital."