Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase public awareness of peripheral arterial disease, its risk factors, and early intervention.

The NHS.UK website has publicly available information on the condition, risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment of peripheral arterial disease, in an online only format. NHS England commissions vascular arterial care from a number of specialist centres to ensure the appropriate management of peripheral arterial disease. The Vascular Disease Clinical Reference Group works closely with Getting It Right First Time, and the respective professional societies, to review patient outcomes and support commissioned providers in the delivery of high-quality care for patients. NHS England also commissioned a two-year Commissioning for Quality and Innovation scheme during 2022 to 2024, which incentivised the adoption of the Vascular Peripheral Arterial Disease Quality Improvement Framework, to support timely interventions for revascularisation.

NHS England also commissions the National Vascular Registry, which provides information on the quality and outcomes of care for adults who had major vascular procedures in National Health Service hospitals. It aims to support vascular services to provide high quality of care for these people, and shares examples of good practice as well as highlighting areas which merit further investigation in order to improve care.