Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of heart failure on people from ethnic minority backgrounds; and what steps his Department is taking to increases early diagnoses of heart failure in people from those groups.

No recent assessment has made. NHS England has a range of current guidance supporting Healthcare Professionals on identifying the symptoms of heart failure, including an elearning programme targeted at clinicians in primary and community care settings.