Improving our health by translating research evidence into local NHS practice

Theme 6

Investment in prevention (evaluation of targeted prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care)

Theme Lead Dr Tom Marshall, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, University of Birmingham

This theme, like all the above themes, is concerned with improving access for people at risk of cardiovascular disease. Service level interventions will be put in place in deprived communities in three PCTs. This theme is concerned with ensuring that patient level interventions (of a medical and behavioural nature) of proven effectiveness reach those who most need them. Those at highest risk have the greatest potential to gain from intervention and are the group in which intervention is most likely to be cost-effective. Untreated individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease will be identified from primary care records and systematically invited for assessment, lifestyle advice and treatment. More