You may ask why, at the height of a resurging COVID-19 pandemic with nursing staff under inestimable pressure, would the British Society for Heart Failure Nurse Forum launch a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse (HFSN) Competency Framework? Well, in the words of Wendy Preston, head of nursing practice, Royal College of Nursing: ‘Despite the adversity, the pandemic gives us a rare insight and offers the opportunity to build back better provision for the future. This heart failure nurse competency framework is a tool which should be used by everybody as it will set the standard for life after CoViD-19’.’