Cardiovascular Diseases and Cholesterol

(asked on 25th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent (a) high cholesterol (b) cardiovascular diseases; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of inflation on the (a) prevalence and (b) treatment of those diseases.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 1st February 2023

The Department is taking steps to prevent high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (CVD) by taking forward a programme of work to modernise the NHS Health Check and ensure that as many people as possible benefit from this prevention programme. This includes developing a national digital NHS Health Check to complement the in-person service and enable people to self-check at home.

The National Health Service’s priorities for 2023/24 are set out in the NHS operational planning guidance. This includes objectives on preventing CVD by improving the management of hypertension and CVD risk. Primary Care Networks’ service requirements also include objectives to improve hypertension case-finding and diagnosis, diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolaemia and cholesterol management.

The Department has not assessed the potential impact of inflation on the prevalence and treatment of CVD.

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