Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the prevalence of heart failure (a) nationally and (b) in The Cotswolds constituency.

The heart failure prevalence figures are not collected or published for parliamentary constituencies.

The clinical commissioning group (CCG) of NHS Gloucestershire, which includes the Cotswold constituency area, the prevalence of heart failure recorded by the heart failure primary care register in the general practitioner Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in 2015/16 was 0.77%.

In England the heart failure prevalence was recorded in the QOF registers as 0.76%, but published evidence¹ suggests that this number of people known to general practices is higher in the United Kingdom, approximately 1.22% in men and 0.76% in women, over 558,000 people.

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¹ Bhatnagar P, Wickramasinghe K, Williams J, Rayner M, Townsend N. The epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in the UK 2014. Heart 2015;101:1182-1189