Cardiovascular health

Cardiovascular disease (including heart attack and stroke) is one of the leading causes of death in the UK. It is also the leading cause of avoidable mortality in our most deprived communities and accounts for a fifth of the life expectancy gap between people living in the most affluent areas compared to those living in the most deprived.

Drawing upon the strength and expertise of our partnership, which houses the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Queen Mary William Harvey Research Institute and Barts Heart Centre, we are focusing our efforts on transforming prediction, detection and management of risk of cardiovascular disease.

Our current programmes focus on:

• Supporting primary care teams and releasing clinician capacity to transform long-term condition management. Our proactive care frameworks are helping primary care teams across the country to optimise their management of high risk conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and atrial fibrillation.
• Providing smart data to drive at scale treatment optimisation to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Our CVDACTION resource brings together all the key metrics for CVD prevention into one place, integrating the results of around 85 searches into user friendly, highly actionable dashboards, in order to display gaps, opportunities and inequalities in preventive care. Our Size of the Prize resource shows how many heart attacks and strokes will be prevented and how much money saved in every Integrated Care System by optimising blood pressure and cholesterol to realistic ambition levels – helping to make the compelling case for change.
• For more information on these programmes, please contact primarycare@uclpartners.com