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Guidance

Guidance and standards in cardiovascular health and care for health and care professionals.

Guidance

  • Cardiovascular disease prevention: applying All Our Health

    Organisation: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: March 2022
    Description: Guidance from the Office of Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) for healthcare professionals on prevention of cardiovascular disease, which still remains a significant cause of disability, death and health inequalities

  • Chronic heart failure in adults

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Sep 2018
    Description: Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management

  • Improving Health: Annual Health Checks

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films and Guidance on Annual Health Checks
    Date published: June 2022
    Description: Exemplars of AHCs, Films about their importance from people with lived experience, AHCs in secondary care pilot. Published June 2022

  • Increasing the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability: videos for professionals

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films
    Date published: Oct 2021
    Description: Various films for healthcare professionals working in primary care to increase knowledge of Annual Health Checks which can check on cardiovascular health and general wellbeing.

  • NHS: Atrial Fibrillation

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Website
    Date published: May 2021
    Description: information on Atrial fibrillation - a heart condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate.

  • NHS: Cardiovascular disease

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Website
    Date published: April 2022
    Description: Information on cardiovascular disease, strokes, Transient ischemic attack (TIAs), coronary heart disease and more

  • NHS: Congenital Heart Disease

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Website
    Date published: Sep 2021
    Description: Information about Congenital heart disease - a general term for a range of birth defects that affect the normal way the heart works

  • NHS: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Website
    Date published: Oct 2019
    Description: Information about High blood pressure, or hypertension, which rarely has noticeable symptoms. But if untreated, it increases the risk of serious problems such as heart attacks and strokes.

  • NHS: Stroke

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Website
    Date published: Sep 2022
    Description: Information about Stroke - is a serious life-threatening medical condition that happens when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.

  • NHS: Transient ischaemic attack (TIA)

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Website
    Date published: Jan 2020
    Description: Information about Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or "mini stroke" - which is caused by a temporary disruption in the blood supply to part of the brain.

  • NICE Impact: People with a Learning Disability

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: November 2021
    Description: General guidance on working with people with a learning disability including the importance of Annual Health Checks which include checks on heart rate and blood pressure.

  • NICE: Cardiovascular conditions

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance (general)
    Date published: Regularly Updated
    Description: Guidance and standards on the treatment of all cardiovascular conditions in general.

  • Population screening: supporting people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance and resources for local screening providers, commissioners and other
    Date published: June 2021
    Description: Guidance for health professionals to support people with a learning disability to access screening.

  • Reasonable Adjustments for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Updated Jan 2020
    Description: Guidance on the legal duties for clinicians and others on making reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability under the law.

  • Reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Academic Health Science Networks
    Type: Film
    Date published: Oct 2021
    Description: This video is for healthcare professionals working in primary care, to understand more about reasonable adjustments and how they can support people with a learning disability to attend their annual health check.

  • Stable Angina

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: August 2016
    Description: Stable angina: management

  • Stroke and TIA in over 16s

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: April 2022
    Description: Clinical advice on the diagnosis and acute management of stroke and TIA in the 48 hours after onset of symptoms.

  • Stroke Rehabilitation in Adults

    Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: June 2013
    Description: Clinical guidance which covers stroke rehabilitation for adults and young people aged 16 and over who have had a stroke with continuing impairment, activity limitation or participation restriction.

  • Use of reasonable adjustments to reduce health inequalities for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films and Guidance
    Date published: Jun 2022
    Description: A film about Kareem and his mum Fazilla’s experience of reasonable adjustments and the difference it makes to them when reasonable adjustments are offered.

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