Mr Iain  Armstrong

Dr Armstrong is a Complex Innovation Programme Manager at the British Heart Foundation. Iain has responsibility for a range of programmes, including overseeing implementation of the House of Care with a focus on people with cardiovascular disease. The House of Care programme is a whole-system approach to establishing, implementing and sustaining a new model of care based around collaborative care and support planning. The programme is being developed and implemented with cardiovascular patients in five sites in England and Scotland. Ultimately, the programme aims to enable individuals with cardiovascular disease to engage in care and support planning conversations that are collaborative and focused on what is important to them, and where they are supported to access a wide variety of community and voluntary sector activities and services.

As well as the House of Care, Iain continues to manage the Caring Together Programme, a partnership between Marie Curie, the British Heart Foundation and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Caring Together aims to improve access to palliative and supportive care for patients with heart failure. Caring Together has shown that a holistic approach to heart failure patients, along with early access to supportive palliative care, can improve quality of life and allow more patients to be cared for, and die, in their preferred place of care.
Previously, Iain has undertaken research and audit with Audit Scotland (reviewing the nGMS contract), NHS 24 (Research and Development Manager) and the University of Glasgow (NHS service evaluation). Iain's PhD focused on the application of telemedicine in remote environments including offshore oil platforms, merchant ships, and Antarctic research bases.