{"id":172873,"date":"2025-06-10T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172873\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:58:08","slug":"free-heart-checks-offered-by-nhs-to-people-across-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/172873\/","title":{"rendered":"Free heart checks offered by NHS to people across Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heart failure is caused by changes in the heart&#8217;s structure or function, which can lead to symptoms like breathlessness, fatigue and swollen ankles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across the UK, over one million people are living with heart failure, with 200,000 new diagnoses each year and an estimated 400,000 people undiagnosed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sue Ellery, consultant cardiologist and heart failure clinical lead for Sussex Integrated Care Board and University Hospitals Sussex, said: &#8220;Heart failure is a major cause of avoidable hospital admissions and too often we only identify it when someone becomes seriously unwell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Ellery added that the aim of the heart check events was to reach &#8220;people in the community who may have early signs and offering them a quick, simple check that could make a real difference to their long-term health&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heart failure is caused by changes in the heart&#8217;s structure or function, which can lead to symptoms like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-172873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}