It seems to me essential, therefore, that NHS boards make specialist heart failure nursing services a top priority.The Scottish heart failure nurse forum, which is the independent representative body for such nurses in Scotland and which is supported by BHF Scotland and Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, produced the report that stimulated this evening’s debate. That report compares the provision of specialist heart failure nursing services in Scotland in 2012 to provision when it published its previous report in 2008.