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Cardiovascular disease is highlighted in the NHS Long Term Plan as the single biggest are where the NHS can save lives. Our new Blood Pressure Optimisation programme aims to transform the prevention of heart attacks, strokes and dementia.

Size of the Prize is a new resource that UCLPartners has developed with The Health Economics Unit. For every ICS, this shows the potential for real ambition in preventing heart attacks and strokes at scale in a short time frame by optimising the management of high blood pressure.

UCLPartners is working with NHS Trusts and primary care services across our geography to improve the offer to people with known or previously unknown high risk of cardiovascular disease, to ensure their blood cholesterol levels are understood and that the patient receives the appropriate treatment along the pathway.

We are working with secondary care organisations on cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention strategies for both staff and patients supporting the NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS People Plan.

Watch our educational films, created to help clinicians provide educational support to patients regarding anticoagulant medication.

We are working with patients and carers to understand their experiences of being tested and treated for high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation and high cholesterol, and to understand how testing and treating can be improved in the primary care setting.

We are supporting primary care teams across our partnership and are providing proactive care frameworks based on new pathway development, virtual consultations, digital solutions and optimal use of the wider primary care team.

Our AHSC (Academic Health Science Centre) cardiovascular programme is focussed on developing innovative approaches to prevent heart disease and creating new medicines and devices that will benefit patients.

We are working to prevent Atrial Fibrillation (AF) related strokes and associated mortality and morbidity by supporting clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to improve care pathways for people with AF.