Global Heart Hub Launches Heart Failure Awareness Month 2026 highlighting Connected Care for Connected Conditions
1 May 2026
Seeing the whole picture. Treating the whole person.
As part of Heart Failure Awareness Month in May, Global Heart Hub (GHH), the international alliance of heart patient organisations, is proud to launch its 2026 campaign, Heart Failure: Connected Care for Connected Conditions.
Heart failure affects more than 60 million people worldwide. It is a serious, progressive condition where the heart is weaker or stiffer than normal, making it harder for blood to circulate properly. 1 in 5 people develop heart failure in their life and it’s the leading cause for people aged 65+ to be hospitalised.
But heart failure rarely exists in isolation. It is often accompanied by diabetes, kidney disease, high blood pressure, mental health challenges or other connected conditions. These conditions influence one another; when one worsens, the others often follow. They are connected conditions.
Some of these connected conditions can cause heart failure, some can be caused by it. But all of them mean that heart failure treatment must be connected to these other health conditions. The best response to heart failure is to see the whole picture and treat the whole person.
Connected Care for Connected Conditions
The campaign emphasises the need for connected care models that coordinate support across various healthcare providers – an approach proven to reduce hospital admissions and improve long-term health outcomes for people living with heart failure.
When you live with heart failure, or care for someone who does, knowing how conditions interact can help you ask better questions, recognise changes earlier and seek support sooner. Early detection, timely diagnosis and coordinated treatment can make a meaningful difference in long-term outcomes.
When care is connected, across conditions, across conversations and across time, people living with heart failure often live healthier, longer lives. “Because treating heart failure means treating the whole person,” says Heart Failure Patient Network Chair, Nicole McKelvie, Chairwoman and Co-founder, Heart Failure Warriors, Northern Ireland.
The 2026 international campaign is led by the Heart Failure Patient Network of Global Heart Hub, an alliance of patient organisations from across the globe, working with heart failure patients and their carers. For more information or to support this campaign, see globalhearthub.org/heart-failure-awareness-2026
About the campaign
Led by Global Heart Hubs Heart Failure Patient Network, the 2026 Heart Failure Awareness Campaign focuses on the importance of managing heart failure and connected conditions. The Heart Failure Patient Network is an alliance of patient organisations from across the globe, working with heart failure patients and their carers. A priority of the Network is to raise awareness of heart failure, promote public and healthcare education and advocate for policy action in an insufficiently recognised and increasingly burdensome disease area.
