Search results for: Coronary Heart Disease

OHE Lunchtime Seminar: Delivering an Outcomes Based NHS: Creating the right conditions

7 June 2016, 11:00pm

…From 1998 to 2002 he was seconded from the NHS to the Department of Health where he was the lead author of the Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework and,…

Renal Failure a priority in health?

4 January 1978

…million total population per year.1 Compared with conditions like coronary heart disease, cancer,… The incidence of treatable chronic renal failure in Britain and other Western countries is very small indeed….

Rare Disease Day 2024: Why Do We Care About Rare?

29 February 2024

…event was launched by EURORDIS (Rare Disease Europe and its Council of National Alliances) in 2008, to raise awareness among the public and decision-makers about rare diseases and their impact….

Foundation

…more difficult to find a new treatment for heart disease, it was that we already had treatments for heart disease and the industry was now shifting into oncology, which is…

Early Diagnosis of Raised Arterial Blood Pressure

1 July 1967

…kidney disease, coronary heart disease, overweight and depression. It is hoped to publish these in pairs at approximately two-monthly intervals. These studies are being published at a time when early…

Advancing Rare Disease Care: Challenges and Key Issues

28 February 2025

Today marks Rare Disease Day 2025. This time last year we published an Article entitled “ Why do we care about rare?”, summarising the origins of rare disease day, the…

Women’s Health Today

1 November 1987

…to men. Diseases such as coronary heart disease and cancer of the lung can, therefore, no longer be seen as problems of the male sex alone. It is also clear…

Obesity

1 July 1994

…ill health in the UK today’. Obesity is often accompanied by elevated levels of blood cholesterol and blood pressure giving rise to an increased risk of mortality from coronary heart…

Efficiency Measurement in Primary Care: Time to Overcome the Challenges and Achieve Some Gains

10 March 2021

…proxied by QOF scores on three selected conditions (coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertension). Despite these apparent challenges, the current environment is ripe with opportunities for improving and maximising primary care…