Survey can shape services

Many of your readers will be living with, or have a loved one or a friend who is living with, chest, heart or stroke conditions, including Long Covid.

At Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland we are seeking the support of your readers to help us with our biggest Lived Experience Survey to date.

One in five people in Scotland are living with chest or heart conditions, or have had a stroke.

Our survey seeks the views of those who have been personally affected by these conditions, and we are asking your readers to complete the short questionnaire based on their own personal experience.

The survey means people living with chest, heart and stroke conditions, including Long Covid, can share how their condition impacts their lives, what support they need and what matters most to them. This is particularly important post pandemic where people have seen such seismic changes to their lives.

If you are reading this and you have one of these conditions, we want to hear from you. We want to know how your life has changed? What matters most to you?

What help and support has made the most difference?

The results will mean we can highlight to Scotland’s key influencers – such as the Scottish Government, local authorities and the NHS – what the reality of living with our conditions is like, and the issues that are most important to the people who are at the heart of what we do.

We will also use the results to help us shape the support and services that we provide across the country. Our mission is to create a Scotland where no life is half lived. We want people to live their lives to the full.

To have your voice heard and to take part in our biggest survey to date, visit www.chss.org. uk/survey.

Jane-Claire Judson, chief executive, Chest

Heart & Stroke Scotland