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Helen Williams looks at opportunities for detection and how innovation solutions and technology can help close the gap and maintain patient safety going forward.

The national audit for cardiovascular disease will include six high risk conditions with extracts of routinely recorded general practice data being monitored and managed for reducing impact on patients. By Dr Matt Kearney and Lorraine Oldridge.

The latest figures reveal that North Central London has the highest rate of improvement in England for reducing strokes related to an irregular heart rhythm, with an additional 1,742 people receiving potentially lifesaving therapy over the last year.

UCLPartners Programme Director Dr Matt Kearney looks at the Kings Fund Report on tech innovations transforming the way routine care is delivered during COVID-19 and asks whether this technology can now be harnessed to support the management of long term conditions post-covid.

Today UCLPartners has launched a new package of digital resources and practical support to help primary care teams to continue providing proactive care to patients with long-term conditions during and post COVID-19.

Dr Matt Kearney, GP and Programme Director at UCLPartners, looks at transforming our ways of working in primary care and taking a different approach to help prevent cardiovascular disease.

Recently released figures reveal that a programme rolled out across north central and north east London to reduce strokes related to an irregular heart rhythm have led to an additional 3,050 people receiving potentially lifesaving therapy over the last year. This is expected to prevent an additional 80 life-changing strokes this year and every year in the future.

The rising incidence of cardiovascular disease means its early detection and improved prevention should be the primary care sector’s top priority argues Dr Matt Kearney.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Barts Health NHS Trust are rolling out innovative new image analysis software to radically improve accuracy rates for coronary heart disease diagnoses and reduce the use of invasive patient testing.

UCLPartners has been awarded an AF Association Healthcare Pioneer Award for work with South East Essex CCGs, issuing mobile ECG devices to 82% of practices across the CCGs, resulting in 23 new patients identified with possible AF and 431 additional patients receiving anticoagulation treatment.