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Guidance
Guidance and standards in cardiovascular health and care for health and care professionals.
Guidance
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Cardiovascular disease prevention: applying All Our Health
Organisation: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
Type: Guidance
Date published: March 2022
Description: Guidance from the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) for healthcare professionals on prevention of cardiovascular disease, which still remains a significant cause of disability, death and health inequalities
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Chronic heart failure in adults
Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Type: Guidance
Date published: Sep 2018
Description: Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management
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Improving Health: Annual Health Checks
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Films and Guidance on Annual Health Checks
Date published: June 2022
Description: Exemplars of AHCs, Films about their importance from people with lived experience, AHCs in secondary care pilot. Published June 2022
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Increasing the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability: videos for professionals
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Films
Date published: Oct 2021
Description: Various films for healthcare professionals working in primary care to increase knowledge of Annual Health Checks which can check on cardiovascular health and general wellbeing.
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NHS: Atrial Fibrillation
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Website
Date published: May 2021
Description: information on Atrial fibrillation - a heart condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate.
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NHS: Cardiovascular disease
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Website
Date published: April 2022
Description: Information on cardiovascular disease, strokes, Transient ischemic attack (TIAs), coronary heart disease and more
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NHS: Congenital Heart Disease
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Website
Date published: Sep 2021
Description: Information about Congenital heart disease - a general term for a range of birth defects that affect the normal way the heart works
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NHS: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Website
Date published: Oct 2019
Description: Information about High blood pressure, or hypertension, which rarely has noticeable symptoms. But if untreated, it increases the risk of serious problems such as heart attacks and strokes.
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NHS: Stroke
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Website
Date published: Sep 2022
Description: Information about Stroke - is a serious life-threatening medical condition that happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.
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NHS: Transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Website
Date published: Jan 2020
Description: Information about Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or "mini stroke" - which is caused by a temporary disruption in the blood supply to part of the brain.