Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services

(asked on 17th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support cardiovascular disease prevention through online pharmacies.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 2nd July 2025

We are committed to ensuring fewer lives are lost to the biggest killers, including cardiovascular disease. That is why we have set an ambition to reduce premature death from heart disease and stroke by 25% within a decade. Community pharmacies make an important contribution to achieving this ambition including by providing NHS blood pressure checks and the NHS New Medicine Service through which pharmacists provide extra support to patients newly prescribed medicines including for cardiovascular disease. Whilst blood pressure checks can only be provided face-to-face, the New Medicine Service can also be delivered remotely.

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