A system, comprising: a cardiac cycle monitor configured to monitor cardiac events within cardiac cycles; a neural stimulator configured to deliver neural stimulation to the autonomic neural target; a memory configured to store a programmable neural stimulation dose parameter for an intermittent neural stimulation therapy, the programmable neural stimulation dose parameter including a value for a number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle; a communication system configured to receive programming instructions for the NS dose parameter including the value for the number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle, and store the value for the number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle in the memory; a controller (110, 114) configured to control the neural stimulator to deliver the intermittent neural stimulation therapy to the autonomic neural target, wherein the controller, the memory, the neural stimulator and the cardiac cycle monitor are configured to cooperate to implement a process to deliver the intermittent neural stimulation therapy, comprising: sensing a cardiac event within a cardiac cycle; and delivering neural stimulation bursts of neural stimulation pulses, including timing delivery of the neural stimulation bursts using the sensed cardiac events within the cardiac cycles, including delivering the number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle during a first portion of a cardiac cycle, a remaining portion of the cardiac cycle being without neural stimulation pulses, wherein the system is configured to display a dose meter to provide an indicator of a dose over a period of time indicating a total charge delivered over the period of time for a current user programmable neural stimulation dose, or for a user proposed neural stimulation dose, or for both the current user programmable neural stimulation dose and the user proposed neural stimulation dose. a cardiac cycle monitor configured to monitor cardiac events within cardiac cycles; a neural stimulator configured to deliver neural stimulation to the autonomic neural target; a memory configured to store a programmable neural stimulation dose parameter for an intermittent neural stimulation therapy, the programmable neural stimulation dose parameter including a value for a number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle; a communication system configured to receive programming instructions for the NS dose parameter including the value for the number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle, and store the value for the number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle in the memory; a controller (110, 114) configured to control the neural stimulator to deliver the intermittent neural stimulation therapy to the autonomic neural target, wherein the controller, the memory, the neural stimulator and the cardiac cycle monitor are configured to cooperate to implement a process to deliver the intermittent neural stimulation therapy, comprising: sensing a cardiac event within a cardiac cycle; and delivering neural stimulation bursts of neural stimulation pulses, including timing delivery of the neural stimulation bursts using the sensed cardiac events within the cardiac cycles, including delivering the number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle during a first portion of a cardiac cycle, a remaining portion of the cardiac cycle being without neural stimulation pulses, sensing a cardiac event within a cardiac cycle; and delivering neural stimulation bursts of neural stimulation pulses, including timing delivery of the neural stimulation bursts using the sensed cardiac events within the cardiac cycles, including delivering the number of neural stimulation pulses per cardiac cycle during a first portion of a cardiac cycle, a remaining portion of the cardiac cycle being without neural stimulation pulses, wherein the system is configured to display a dose meter to provide an indicator of a dose over a period of time indicating a total charge delivered over the period of time for a current user programmable neural stimulation dose, or for a user proposed neural stimulation dose, or for both the current user programmable neural stimulation dose and the user proposed neural stimulation dose.