Coronary Vascular Disease

EDM number 583 in 2007-08, proposed by Jim Dowd on 13/12/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health education and preventive medicine and Health services.

That this House recognises that medical science has identified the key risk factors associated with coronary vascular disease - including increasing age, family history of heart disease, diabetes and elevated cholesterol - and is concerned that significant local variation exists in cholesterol measurement of at-risk patients in primary care with cover ranging from 90 per cent. of patients with heart disease in some to only 10 per cent. in others; and, in view of the UK's annual productivity losses owing to coronary disease running at £2.9 billion, calls for best current clinical practice to be available to all, irrespective of their home address, and for the Joint British Society Guidelines on the prevention of cardiovascular disease to be adopted as the clinically-driven NHS standard, and for GPs' contracts and rewards through the Quality and Outcomes Framework to be linked to the attainment of targets derived from these standards.

This motion has been signed by a total of 80 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.