Welcome to the New Zealand Heart Foundation

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Join the fun, sign up to volunteer as a Big Heart Appeal street collector on Friday 21 February and/or Saturday 22 February 2025 and help save lives.

Staying well with heart failure

My Heart Check

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Our purpose: to stop all people in New Zealand dying prematurely from heart disease and enable people with heart disease to live full lives

180,000

people in New Zealand are currently living with heart disease

That's more than one in 23 adults [1]

1 in 3

Almost 1 in 3 deaths in NZ are caused by cardiovascular disease

It is the leading cause of death in New Zealand and includes heart, stroke and blood vessel disease [2]

90 mins

Every 90 minutes a New Zealander dies from heart disease

Many of these deaths are premature and preventable [2]

$95m

The Heart Foundation has invested into research since 1968

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News & Stories

20 November 2024 in Blogs

Ideas for healthy summer entertaining

Summer is the perfect time to gather friends and family for outdoor fun, and of course, a spread of tasty food.

Become a Big Heart Appeal street collector

Big-hearted volunteers will be out in full force in February 2025 as part of the Heart Foundation’s biggest fundraiser of the year, the Big Heart Appeal.

Heart Foundation welcomes news of funded treatment for heart failure patients

The Heart Foundation's call for wider access to a heart medication has been successful, with Pharmac announcing today that it will fund a drug used in the treatment of chronic heart failure, a move that will benefit more than 18,000 New Zealanders over the next 12 months.

Heart disease is New Zealand’s single biggest killer

You can save lives by funding research

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