Heart Diseases: Health Services

(asked on 23rd July 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to publish an action plan to help tackle heart disease.


Answered by
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 31st July 2024

The NHS Long Term Plan set an aim to prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes, and dementia cases by 2029, and activity is underway. However, we know there is more to do to tackle cardiovascular disease, including heart disease. That is why in our Health Mission to Build an NHS Fit for the Future, we have committed to reducing deaths from heart disease and strokes by a quarter within 10 years. The Department and NHS England are working together on this ambitious mission, and we will share more in due course.

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