With over 1100 events across the UK , from the Orkney Islands to the Channel Islands , this year's Arrhythmia Awareness Week 8th – 14th June has proved the most successful event in the charity's history. Internationally, World Heart Rhythm Week saw more than 250 events taking place across the globe.

The ‘Know Your Pulse' campaign has taken awareness of cardiac arrhythmias to a new level. For months, Arrhythmia Alliance (A-A) has been inundated with medical and public enquiries for materials, including the infamous Pulse Check Card. More than 100,000 Pulse Check Cards were posted to supporters aiming to increase understanding of this simple health check procedure as a means to identifying potential cardiac arrhythmias.

Throughout the week, events took place regionally and nationally by supporting individuals, groups and organisations. Support from key figures Sir Roger Moore, Anthony Blair and Gordon Brown, and over 100 championing organisations, confirmed the reputation of this truly global campaign. Patron and leading advocate, Sir Roger Moore, starred in a DVD taking his own pulse, to help raise awareness of ‘Know Your Pulse’.

Arrhythmia nurses, GPs and other medical and healthcare professionals took to the streets, supermarkets and schools to run ‘Cardiac Cafés’, Pulse Check Clinics and sessions all over the UK and internationally. Such efforts succeeded in educating members of the public on how to be more in touch with their personal health. Through the impact of such awareness-raising events, tens of thousands of people were reached.

Individuals supported the campaign by holding displays and distributing literature and posters to schools, GP surgeries, hospitals, medical centres, care homes, work places, and community centres. These local initiatives helped to raise awareness of heart rhythm disorders and the ‘Know Your Pulse’ campaign amongst those with no prior knowledge of cardiac arrhythmias.

With the huge number of events taking place, media coverage reached an ultimate high.

Trudie Lobban did 12 consecutive radio interviews for stations including BBC Oxford, Manx Radio, BBC Derby and Sunrise Bradford. In the press, the Daily Mail, Daily Star and Daily Express covered the Know Your Pulse campaign. Locally and regionally, the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald reported on the MP John Maples having his pulse taken at the Parliamentary Launch and awareness-raising events were highlighted in the Midlands, Yorkshire, Scotland and Orkney Islands.

Charitable organisations from across the world translated and distributed the Arrhythmia Alliance ‘Know Your Pulse’ check cards in a nationwide campaign. From Chinese to Persian, the Pulse Check Card is being used as an education tool across the globe to teach people of the importance of taking their pulse as a means to identifying potential cardiac arrhythmias.

A-A Affiliates launched national campaigns to promote WHRW