Heart Diseases: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will conduct a review on the prevention of sudden cardiac death that includes (a) an estimation of the incidence of sudden cardiac death, (b) methods to (i) detect and (ii) minimise cardiac conditions and (c) recommendations for future research.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
NHS England is currently working with a range of stakeholders to review the national service specification for inherited cardiac conditions. This covers patients who often present as young adults with previously undiagnosed cardiac disease or families requiring follow up due to a death from this cause, including sudden cardiac death. The service specification can be accessed at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cardiology-inherited-cardiac-conditions.pdf
Over the past five financial years, 2019/20 to 2023/24, The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has invested £145 million in cardiovascular and stroke research directly through NIHR research programmes. The NIHR has also made other significant investments in NIHR infrastructure that collectively strengthen specialist facilities, the workforce, and support services to enable research in the health and care system. This investment has enabled significant cardiovascular disease and stroke research funded by other funders to take place.
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