The Policy Ask with Charmaine Griffiths: “Governments place too much responsibility on individuals to live healthily”

Charmaine Griffiths is chief executive at the British Heart Foundation.

Previously she has held leadership roles at the Institute of Cancer Research, the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the London Cancer Hub and Brain Research UK.

She is trained as a scientist and holds a PhD in neuroscience.

380,000 people are waiting for heart care a rise of 63 per cent since February 2020, the month before the Covid-19 pandemic began.

I've heard from too many families who’ve been devastated by the avoidable death of a loved one.

We need a new NHS workforce plan that addresses cardiac staff shortages.