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Today we launched our draft heart disease plan for Scotland. We're asking all political parties to back the plan in the run up to the #Holyrood21 elections and ensure the ambitious plan is adequately resourced to deliver the change needed to tackle heart disease in Scotland. 1/x
Read more here http://bhf.org.uk/scotheartplan
Developed over the past 18 months in collaboration with the clinical & patient communities in Scotland, the plan sets forth an ambitious set of aims to drive change in the diagnosis, treatment & care of people living with heart disease 2/x
Developed over the past 18 months in collaboration with the clinical & patient communities in Scotland, the plan sets forth an ambitious set of aims to drive change in the diagnosis, treatment & care of people living with heart disease 2/x
The draft plan looks at the entire patient pathway from primary care through to community and specialist services.
It identifies three broad priorities to drive improvements in the patient experience and patient outcomes. 3/x
It identifies three broad priorities to drive improvements in the patient experience and patient outcomes. 3/x
Priority one looks at the diagnosis and treatment of high risk conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and atrial fibrillation.
Recognising too many people are undiagnosed or not on appropriately treated to reduce their risk of heart and circulatory diseases. 4/x
Recognising too many people are undiagnosed or not on appropriately treated to reduce their risk of heart and circulatory diseases. 4/x
Collaborate with key partners to fund and implement
a community-based detection and diagnosis
programme for high blood pressure and high
cholesterol across Scotland which is person centred,
co-designed and incorporates the use
of digital technology for home monitoring. 5/x
a community-based detection and diagnosis
programme for high blood pressure and high
cholesterol across Scotland which is person centred,
co-designed and incorporates the use
of digital technology for home monitoring. 5/x
Priority two is to ensure Everyone with suspected heart
disease in Scotland should have equitable access to timely and evidence-based diagnosis, treatment and care.
Tackling unwarranted variation in treatment must be a priority to deliver an equal service in Scotland. 6/x
disease in Scotland should have equitable access to timely and evidence-based diagnosis, treatment and care.
Tackling unwarranted variation in treatment must be a priority to deliver an equal service in Scotland. 6/x
The next Scottish Government should develop standardised evidence based national pathways for heart conditions
which set out key interventions, timeframes, milestones and outcomes and take a whole systems approach to drive improvements in patient outcomes. 7/x
which set out key interventions, timeframes, milestones and outcomes and take a whole systems approach to drive improvements in patient outcomes. 7/x
The healthcare science workforce is vital to the improvement in diagnosis of people at risk of and living with heart and circulatory disease.
A nationally co-ordinated approach to addressing
workforce and training issues for physiology services should be taken. 8/x
A nationally co-ordinated approach to addressing
workforce and training issues for physiology services should be taken. 8/x
Attention should be given to specialist care, cardiac rehab, psychological support and palliative care to improve equity and reduce unwarranted variation in local pathways. 9/x
Cardiac rehabilitation services are an important part of pathway development. They provide vital support to help people get back to everyday life as much as possible after developing heart disease. 10/x
There is a need to ensure that the psychological and emotional needs of people with heart disease are met. Depression and anxiety are common problems for people with heart disease and are associated with excess mortality and excess disability. 11/x
The need for access to palliative care is increasingly
acknowledged as important for people with advanced
heart failure but it is also important to consider how
to extend such support to people with other forms
of heart disease. 12/x
acknowledged as important for people with advanced
heart failure but it is also important to consider how
to extend such support to people with other forms
of heart disease. 12/x
Cardiac Rehab, Psychological support and Palliative care are support services that are vital to people living with heart and circulatory disease and should be incorporated in to all pathways. 13/x
Priority three calls for high-quality data to be used effectively for high quality research, to support clinical
decision-making, understand patient outcomes and enable better service-planning. 14/x
decision-making, understand patient outcomes and enable better service-planning. 14/x
This will ensure that people experience better quality
of care, improved outcomes, and a reduction in unwarranted variation. 15/x
of care, improved outcomes, and a reduction in unwarranted variation. 15/x
The next Scottish Government must ensure that access to timely, high-quality data for research and quality improvement for heart disease is financially resourced equivalent to work carried out to improve cancer data in Scotland. 16/x
Create a sub-committee of the National Advisory Committee on Heart Disease tasked with supporting a national focus on quality improvement for heart disease through the development of a set of heart disease quality
indicators for inclusion with the Atlas of Variation. 17/x
indicators for inclusion with the Atlas of Variation. 17/x
The vision outlined in this document is of co-designed, whole system pathways. Co-design in relation to this plan includes the meaningful engagement of people living with heart disease in decisions about what pathways of care should look like. 18/x
Today our Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager @RealDavidMc said ""Dealing with these challenges & years of underinvestment means that new national priorities for addressing heart disease in Scotland are needed." 19/x
"That’s why we have been working with the clinical community and heart patients to identify them.
"As we look forward to the Scottish Elections at Holyrood in May, we are calling on all political parties to commit to work with us to tackle these issues.” 20/x
"As we look forward to the Scottish Elections at Holyrood in May, we are calling on all political parties to commit to work with us to tackle these issues.” 20/x
To read the full press release visit https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2021/february/new-focus-heart-disease-scotland
And to read the draft heart disease plan visit http://www.bhf.org.uk/scotheartplan
And to read the draft heart disease plan visit http://www.bhf.org.uk/scotheartplan
