Heart Week is Australia’s national heart health awareness week held in May each year.
It provides an opportunity for the Australian public and health professionals to start a conversation about heart health and take positive steps to reduce their risk of heart disease.
Heart Week 2025 was held from 5 – 11 May, with health professionals across the country encouraging people to understand their risk of heart disease and book a Heart Health Check with their GP.
Heart Week 2026 will take place from 4 – 10 May. Stay tuned to learn more about how you can get involved!
Congratulations to our Heart Week 2025 Creative Display Competition winners:
Check out the creative ways healthcare teams and workplaces throughout Australia helped spread awareness in support of #HeartWeek2025.
While there is no one cause for heart disease, there are risk factors that increase your chance of developing it. The more risk factors you have, the more likely you are to develop heart disease.
Preventing heart disease starts with knowing your risk factors and making positive lifestyle changes to lower your risk. This animation will step you through some positive changes you can make to lower your risk.
Streamline CVD risk assessment and management in general practice with the Heart Health Check Toolkit
A Heart Health Check with your GP will help you understand your risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 5 years and what you can do to prevent it.
Take the heart age test to check your heart health. Use our heart health check calculator to understand your risk of heart disease and heart attacks.