Plea to help fund heart research

As a Professor of Cardiopulmonary Medicine at the University of Cambridge, I see first-hand how devastating heart disease can be. We are determined to spare more families the pain of losing a loved one to these conditions.

Research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has helped halve death rates from heart and circulatory

diseases over the past 50 years. So much of our work has only been possible thanks to the amazing individuals who have remembered the BHF in their Will. These special gifts fund more than a quarter of all cardiovascular research in the UK. In the past year residents in the East of England left £7.7 million in their Wills to the British Heart Foundation to help fund life saving cardiovascular research.

I would personally like to honour these people and express our gratitude.

But there’s still so much more to do, and there are 670,000 people in the East of England living with cardiovascular disease right now.

A gift of any size, after you’ve provided for your loved ones, will enable the BHF to continue to fund pioneering research so we can beat heart and circulatory disease for good. To find out more about leaving a gift in your Will, please visit bhf.org.uk/wills

Prof Nick Morrell BHF funded Professor Cambridge University