Since publication of the first edition of this outstandingly successful book, the knowledge and practice of nurse intervention in chronic heart failure outcomes has expanded considerably, with programmes being set up in many centres. This second edition changes the emphasis from reviewing the research to guidance on implementation, making the book an ever more useful tool for practitioners managing CHF patients. Using the Glasgow group's experience, the comprehensive text covers: The background: reviewing the costs; state of the art treatment of heart failure; specialist nurse intervention: the evidence. The Glasgow experience: a blueprint for identifying and managing patients; assessing the patient with heart failure; optimising day to day management of patients; pharmacological treatment-a specialist nurse perspective The future: new frontiers in specialist nurse management of CHF.