PO Box 3697
Stratford Upon Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 8YL

Tel: 01789 450787
Web: www.arrhythmiaalliance.org.uk

Arrhythmia Alliance (A-A) is a coalition of charities, patient groups, patients, carers, medical groups and allied professionals. These groups remain independent, however, work together under the A-A umbrella to promote timely and effective diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias.

A-A supports and promotes the aims and objectives of the individual groups.

Their aims are:

• To raise awareness of cardiac arrhythmias.
• To improve diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias.
• To improve treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
• To improve quality of life for people with cardiac arrhythmias.

Their objectives are:

• To bring together member charities, healthcare professionals, commissioners and their allies.
• To advance the concerns and needs of all their members.
• To develop the knowledge and skills base of medical professionals and professions allied to medicine.
• To cultivate multi-centre and multi-disciplinary research.
• To prevent sudden cardiac death in vulnerable groups.
• To promote the value and need for cardiac pacing, implantable defibrillators, catheter ablation, and other treatments for arrhythmias.
• To prevent misdiagnosis in patients suffering from arrhythmia and transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC).
• To assess and quantify unmet need amongst those affected by arrhythmia.
• To promote centres of excellence for arrhythmia diagnosis and treatment.
• To secure better care, leading to a better quality of life, for individuals with arrhythmia.