Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to publish an update on its progress on the ambitions and actions in its Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Strategy, published in March 2013.

It is for NHS England, working with Public Health England (PHE) and other stakeholders, to implement the actions set out in the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Outcomes Strategy.

NHS England hosts a CVD outcomes collaborative which brings together the relevant National Clinical Directors, the main relevant national charities, NHS Improving Quality, the National CVD Intelligence Network, PHE and the Department. This collaborative continues to coordinate delivery of the work which was initiated in the CVD Outcomes Strategy. NHS England advises it has no current plans to publish a formal update on progress in implementing the strategy.

The strategy recommended that the National Clinical Director for Heart Disease should work with stakeholders to develop and spread good practice in relation to familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and a number of strategic clinical networks are now prioritising FH detection. In addition, NHS England is considering with stakeholders how a FH database could be established. However, increasing FH diagnosis rates to 50% was not a recommendation in the strategy.