Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made towards delivering the NHS Long Term Plan commitment to help prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases over the next 10 years.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are monitoring progress against the NHS Long Term Plan commitment on preventable deaths from heart attacks, strokes and dementia over the next 10 years. However, due to the impact of the pandemic, data on progress collected through the Primary Care Quality and Outcomes Framework and the national cardiovascular prevent audit is not yet available. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s immediate priorities are supporting systems to restore diagnosis and treatment of these conditions to meet the ambitions as set out in the Long Term Plan.