Table 1

Critical factors and corresponding National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan objectives2

Critical factorCorresponding NHS Long Term Plan objectives
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1 Access to integrated care records for CVD✓✓✓✓✓✓
2 Effective processes for inviting for CVD review in primary care✓✓✓
3 Effectiveness of CVD reviews in primary care✓✓✓
4 Effective treatment of identified patients with CVD✓✓
5 Patients with AF are appropriately managed on anticoagulant✓
6 Processes in place to enable prescription of DOAC at diagnosis for patients with AF✓
7 Identification of people with familial hypercholesterolaemia✓
8 At-risk patients with CHd are appropriately treated with aspirin or alternative agent✓
9 Access to local practice pharmacists for CHD management✓
10 Access to appropriate HF diagnostics✓
11 Access to local specialist HF nurses✓
12 Appropriate provision of cardiac rehabilitation services✓
13 Appropriate access to cardiac rehabilitation services✓
14 Cardiac rehabilitation is resourced appropriately✓
15 Processes for actively managing CVD review invitations✓✓✓
16 Delivering CVD review management✓✓✓
17 Identifying CVD review patients✓✓✓✓
18 Ability to identify patients with AF✓
19 Availability of familial hypercholesterolaemia service✓
20 There is confidence in awareness and diagnosis of HF✓
21 There are sufficient community defibrillators for ICS demographics✓

  • AF, atrial fibrillation; CHD, coronary heart disease; CVD, cardiovascular disease; DOAC, direct-acting oral anticoagulant; HF, heart failure.