Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Merron on 24 June (HL Deb col 657), what steps they are taking to ensure resistant hypertension is addressed as part of the cardiovascular disease modern service framework implementation, given that the framework published on 7 July does not reference resistant hypertension as a distinct, high-risk subgroup.

The Cardiovascular Disease Modern Service Framework sets 12 immediate priorities for the next three years, each with measures and three- and ten-year ambitions. These include treating people with hypertension, including resistant hypertension, to evidence-based targets, with progress tracked through the accompanying measure.

The delivery model set out in the published framework directs systems to use population health data to identify and manage underserved and high-risk populations.

Clinicians are advised to follow the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidelines for the management of resistance hypertension.