‘Know Your Pulse ’ Campaign Continues This year’s Arrhythmia Awareness Week saw more than 1,100 events across the UK, from the Shetland Islands, to North Wales, across to Kent and into London and the far South West.

From early spring, AFA received a large number of enquiries requesting posters, display packs, leafl ets to pass to local medical centres and … the Pulse Check Cards, as AFA members, medical staff and supporters began the 2009 awareness campaign. AFA is working closely with the NHS Improvement Programme and this year’s campaign refl ects our joint vision and marked the public launch of the long term campaign to be ‘Pulse Aware’. With awareness displays planned for libraries, shops, leisure centres, schools, medical practices and hospitals, the message spread, that a simple pulse check can save lives. Teams of medical professionals joined with us and organised ‘Pulse Check ’ stands in local shopping centres, work environments and hospitals. Professor A John Camm reminded the audience at Westminster that, “This is not just a week-long campaign – but an ongoing national and international campaign ensuring that members of the public are aware of their pulse and possible irregular heart rhythm disturbance and that pulse checks become a routine test when visiting your GP.