Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made on the NHS Long Term Plan to ensure that nurses and pharmacists play an active role in the management of cholesterol.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have invested £9 million in an atrial fibrillation programme to test optimal care models and the role of the wider general practice workforce including practice pharmacists and nurses.

The learning from this programme will be included in the development of the Primary Care Network cardiovascular disease prevention direct enhanced service specification and rolled out in 2021-22 to include patients with high cholesterol. This work will also support the NHS Long Term Plan ambition to improve identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia from 7% to 25%.