Premature Deaths: Heart and Circulatory Conditions Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Premature Deaths: Heart and Circulatory Conditions

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Tuesday 6th February 2024

(2 months, 4 weeks ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Markham Portrait Lord Markham (Con)
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Absolutely. These are all key parts of a good, healthy lifestyle for mind and body—for mental health as well. Social prescribing is important for all this as well.

Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell (Con)
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My Lords, following the appointment last year of Professor John Deanfield as the champion for personalised care, can my noble friend the Minister please update the House on the progress of his report on radical approaches to prevent life-threatening cardio- vascular disease?

Lord Markham Portrait Lord Markham (Con)
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I will need to come back in writing to my noble friend on this. I take this opportunity to thank him for his work on the Times Health Commission and for generally pushing forward the whole prevention agenda.