Heart Diseases: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to publish an action plan to help tackle heart disease.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne
The NHS Long Term Plan set an aim to prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes, and dementia cases by 2029, and activity is underway. However, we know there is more to do to tackle cardiovascular disease, including heart disease. That is why in our Health Mission to Build an NHS Fit for the Future, we have committed to reducing deaths from heart disease and strokes by a quarter within 10 years. The Department and NHS England are working together on this ambitious mission, and we will share more in due course.
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