Cardiovascular disease integrated care pilot to improve patient outcomes closer to home

"Within the context of a growing elderly population and better survival of people with CVD conditions, this project aimed to support patients to remain in the community for as long as is clinically possible, avoid hospital admissions and reduce length of stay."

Cardiovascular disease: integrated care pilot to improve patient outcomes closer to home
British Heart Foundation
NICE Quality and Productivity case study
May 2016

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Commissioning for Value Focus Packs

"These focus packs provide more detailed information on those highest spending programmes previously covered by the earlier Commissioning for Value packs. The areas covered are: cancer; the CVD family of conditions including renal, stroke and diabetes; maternity and early years; mental health and dementia; musculoskeletal and trauma; neurology; and respiratory. The packs include a wider range of outcome measures and information on the most common procedures and diagnoses for the condition in question. They help CCGs begin work on phase two of the RightCare approach ‘What to Change’ by using indicative data to identify improvement opportunities."

There are two Commissioning for Value focus packs available for each CCG:

• Cancer, Mental health and dementia, MSK and trauma – May 2016
• CVD, Neurological, Respiratory, Maternity – April 2016

Find out more and access the packs here.

The dynamics of quality: a national panel study of evidence-based standards

"People with long-term health conditions do not always receive the health care they need, and so may suffer avoidable poor health. We aimed to find out if the quality of health care received by people in England had improved over 6 years, for four common long-term health conditions: cardiovascular disease (including heart disease and high blood pressure treatment), depression, diabetes and osteoarthritis."

The dynamics of quality: a national panel study of evidence-based standards
AC Hardcastle, LTA Mounce, SH Richards, MO Bachmann, A Clark, et al.
Health Service Delivery Res 2015;3(11)

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Implementing the NICE guideline on acute heart failure

"Implementation of the guideline should lead to improved management of acute heart failure and may lead to the following savings and benefits..."

Costing statement: Acute heart failure: Implementing the NICE guideline on acute heart failure (CG187)
NICE
October 2014

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Cardiovascular disease commissioning for value focus pack

"National benchmarked data for heart disease and stroke used to understand variation across the pathway for each Clinical Commissioning Group in England to help improve cardiovascular disease commissioning"

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Commissioning for Value focus packs
Public Health England
May 2014

Access the packs and all the resources here.

Commissioning cardiac rehabilitation services

"Clinical Commissioning Groups should work closely with strategic clinical networks for cardiovascular disease, who together with NHS England area teams are responsible for commissioning cardiovascular surgery."

Commissioning cardiac rehabilitation services
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
November 2013

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Cardiovascular disease outcomes strategy

"This strategy is being launched to coincide with The Lancet publication showing the UK’s relatively poor mortality rates and the Department of Health’s call to action to the health and care system to improve mortality rates across the board."

Cardiovascular disease outcomes strategy: improving outcomes for people with or at risk of cardiovascular disease
Department of Health
March 2013

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Characteristics associated with the quality of cardiovascular disease prevention

"There was a positive association between the quality of CVRM in individuals at high risk for developing CVD and the availability of preventive services related to risk assessment and lifestyle management supported by information technology."

Which practice characteristics are associated with the quality of cardiovascular disease prevention in European primary care?
S Ludt, SM Campbell, D Petek, J Rochon, J Szecsenyi, J van Lieshout, M Wensing, D Ose
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:27

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Economic efficiency of primary care for CVD prevention and treatment in Eastern European countries

"Proper primary care can not only decrease the risk of major CVD but also decrease the healthcare costs and increase the number of patients that can be treated."

Economic efficiency of primary care for CVD prevention and treatment in Eastern European countries
T Slavici, et al
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:75

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Deaths from cardiovascular diseases: implications for end of life care in England

"This report provides useful and descriptive overview of the current trends in mortality from cardiovascular diseases including circulatory diseases, congenital heart disease and vascular dementia."

Deaths from cardiovascular diseases: implications for end of life care in England
National End of Life Care Programme
February 2013

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Dark chocolate consumption as prevention therapy in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease

"Daily dark chocolate consumption could be an effective cardiovascular preventive strategy in this population."

The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of dark chocolate consumption as prevention therapy in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease: best case scenario analysis using a Markov model
E Zomer, A Owen, DJ Magliano, D Liew, CM Reid
British Medical Journal, 2012, 344:e3657

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