Part of QUALIPAT heart project, which aims to find patient-centric quality indicators for care. Setting: Academic GP practices, Heidelberg, Germany. Semi-structured interviews with pt with advanced CHF, carers, health and care professionals. Pt interviewed every three months for up to a year. Interviews were followed by focus groups. Concurrent analysis using narrative analysis framework. N= 20 pt with advanced CHF and their carers interviews, interviews). Five died during follow- up and family gave bereavement interview. Age: mean 70 (range Severity: NYHA IV Provide a patient- centric account of the changing and evolving needs of people with advanced heart failure, and how services address these. Part of larger palliative care project. Setting: UK, region unclear Chronic Heart Failure Referral and approach to care NICE 2018. All rights reserved. Subject to Notice of rights. ISBN: 978-1-4731-3093-7 Study Design Population Research aim Comments Semi-structured interview with CHF-HCP. Analysis follows pragmatic variant grounded theory with a degree of constant comparison. N= 12 HCP involved in specialist HF services (cardiologists, geriatricians, general physicians and specialist GPs). Explore reasons for the variations in the diagnosis and management of heart failure and identify barriers to the provision of uniformly high standards of care. Setting: UK, Durham and Tees SHA Gallacher Qualitative secondary analysis. Use archived interviews with pt collected for related research (unpublished). Analysis used Normalisation Process . Two authors designed a coding framework, while a third adjudicated. N= 47 pt with a CHF diagnosis based on echo, taking ACE- inhibitors and a diuretic, sampled from primary care to mirror demographics of CHF. Age: mean 73 (range Severity: Not stated Identify and understand the components of treatment burden to inform the development of tools to measure this, HF being a condition likely to have high treatment burden and comorbidity. Setting: UK, not clear where or when. 