What core professionals should be included in an MDT for heart failure patients?
The core professionals in most teams currently consist of a cardiologist and a specialist nurse as a minimum and in some cases can include many other professionals from other specialties. The committee therefore considered that the recommendation to have an MDT with a core team consisting of a physician with subspecialty interest in heart failure, a specialist heart failure nurse, competencies to manage prescribing, that could refer to other specialties if necessary, would not have an overall cost impact.