Guidance
Guidance and standards in cardiovascular health and care for health and care professionals.
Guidance
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Stable Angina
Organisation: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Type: Guidance
Date published: August 2016
Description: Stable angina: management
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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.
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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.
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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.