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We continue to present at the monthly education classes for new patients provided by the
Rehabilitation Department, handing out our Recipe Booklet to endorse the talk by the dietician.
In 2006 we donated £50,000 towards the cost of a Transeosophageal Echocardiography machine (TOE),
which assists surgeons by showing pictures of the back of the heart during an operation.
In the same year, to assist hospital finances, we pledged two years salary payments for an
Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist and for a whole time equivalent in the Rehabilitation Department,
a total over two years of in excess of £150,000.
More recently we have undertaken to pay £5,000 per annum to maintain the Phase IV exercise
programme at Leisure Centres in the community.

The recent loss of our Treasurer, Geoff Lloyd, was a body blow for the Group.
Between his appointment in1994 and his death in September he had not only contributed in his
own meticulous way to Group activities and the accounts, but he had represented us locally,
regionally and nationally with great diligence.
This is evidenced by the number of tributes received far and wide.

Our Funwalk in April 2007 and our Patient and Carer Partnership Meeting in May
were both successful with many attendees.
We have also become affiliated to Arrhythmia Alliance and begun vascular work with stroke organisations.
An ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator) sub-group has been formed and is doing well.

Our chairman, Ken Timmis, has been accepted onto the Patient and Carer Network of the
Royal College of Physicians for a period of three years and has been accepted as
President-Elect of Heart Care Partnership (UK), the patient and carer arm of the British cardiovascular Society,
to take office as President in October 2008