AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

 Provide opportunity for social contact between people with heart disease.

 Encourage people with heart disease to interact as a group and to develop new and lasting friendships.

 Offer mutual support and assistance to heart disease sufferers, their carers and families.

 Arrange a varied programme of meetings and social events that cover heart related topics and topics of everyday interest and allow for healthy discussion.

 Raise funds towards the purchase of equipment for the Coronary Care Unit, for the benefit of other cardiac patients at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and for the after care of patients following discharge.

 Keep members informed of current developments in cardiac care and to distribute relevant literature. 

 Liaise with and maintain strong links with, all Health Care Professionals.