Changing lives and giving families a future

 

Some of the most ground-breaking, innovative and important achievements in heart health research over the past 45 years have been made due to work supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

 
KEY STATISTICS

  •   In the UK almost 2.6 million people have coronary heart disease

  The BHF invests over £137 a minute on research to keep the nation's hearts healthy.

  Every day in the UK, around 570 people die from heart and circulatory disease

  In 2006/07 the BHF spent £50.4 million on vital heart research

  The BHF funds 55%of the research into heart disease in the UK

 
 
WHAT CAN YOUR £1 PROVIDE?
 
Your £1 donation to the £1 million target could help provide 20 portable Echocardiograph machines and help thousands of families to avoid the tragedy caused by undetected heart disease.
 
OR

666 Defribrillators

Every six minutes someone dies of a heart attack in the UK and one in three people who have a heart attack die before reaching hospital

If a heart attack victim can be defribrillated within 2-3 minutes of arrest, the chances of their survival are increased by up to 50 per cent.

Your £1 donation to the £1 million target could help fund 666 defribrillators and help save thousands of lives

OR

121 hours of scientific research 
 
 
 
 
DID YOU KNOW THAT ...
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  •   One in five men and one in seven women die from heart disease - that’s around 94,000 deaths in the UK each year; over 250 every day 

  •   Around 2.5 million people are living with heart disease in the UK. 

  •   Around 4,600 babies are born with congenital heart disease each year in the UK.

  Your £1 donation to the £1 million target could help fund over two week's worth of scientific research to help in the battle to prevent, cure and treat heart disease.
 

Be 1 in a million ...