Cardiovascular Diseases: Diagnosis and Health Education
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help increase (a) public and (b) medical education on vascular and venous disease; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of doing so on levels of early diagnosis.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
Vascular and venous disease are often associated with risk factors, such as raised cholesterol, obesity, and raised blood pressure.
The Department’s Better Health campaigns and resources include free evidence-based apps and tools to support people to make and sustain changes to improve their health, including the NHS Weight Loss app, the Food Scanner App, Couch to 5K, and Active 10.
In addition, a national multi-media campaign to help people to stop smoking ran between December 2024 and March 2025, and a campaign to encourage people to check their blood pressure with their local pharmacy ran in March 2024. Campaigns such as these have helped raised awareness of risk factors.
The evidence of the impact of both public and medical education is well established, and the Department will continue to look to the evidence to inform future policy decisions.
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