Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the standard for Priority 2, cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic case-finding, in the Cardiovascular Disease Modern Service Framework, whether she plans to introduce a metric capturing the detection of atrial fibrillation.

The NHS Health Check that is used to measure implementation of Priority 2 does not formally record atrial fibrillation, and as such, the Department and NHS England are still considering how we can better measure the full scope of the priorities set out in the modern service framework. Further updates will be provided in due course.