Heart Disease Improvement Plan

Annex 2 - Resources and References

Better Heart Disease and Stroke Care Action Plan (June 2009)

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/06/29102453/11

ISD Scotland - Heart Disease

http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Heart-Disease

Healthcare Improvement Scotland - Heart disease service improvement

http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/our_work/cardiovascular_disease/heart_disease_services.aspx

Priority 1: Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

• SIGN 97: Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease (February 2007)
• NICE clinical guideline 71: Familial hypercholesterolaemia (August 2008)
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland Clinical Standards: Heart Disease (April 2010)
• NICE clinical guideline 127: Hypertension (August 2011)
• CEL 01 (2012): Health Promoting Health Service: Action in Hospital Settings
• The Scottish Government: Equally Well Review (June 2013)
• Woodward M, Brindle P, Tunstall-Pedoe H. Adding social deprivation and family history to cardiovascular risk assessment? The ASSIGN score from the Scottish Heart Health Extended Cohort (SHHEC). Heart. 2006

Priority 2: Mental Health for Heart Disease

• Newhouse A, Jiang W. Heart Failure and Depression. Elsevier Inc 2014

Priority 3: Secondary and Tertiary Care Cardiology

• SIGN 96: Management of stable angina (February 2007)
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland Clinical Standards: Heart Disease (April 2010)
• Audit Scotland: Cardiology Services (February 2012)
• ESC/EACTS Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease (version 2012)
• SIGN 93: Acute coronary syndrome (February 2013)

Priority 4: Heart Disease Management and Rehabilitation

• SIGN 57: Cardiac Rehabilitation (January 2002)
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland Clinical Standards: Heart Disease (April 2010)
• The BACPR Standards and Core Components for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation (2012)

Priority 5: Heart Failure

• SIGN 95: Management of chronic heart failure (February 2007)
• Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care - Living and dying with advanced heart failure: a palliative care approach (2008)
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland Clinical Standards: Heart Disease (April 2010)
• NICE clinical guideline 108: Chronic heart failure (August 2010)
• ESC Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure (2012)
• ESC Guideline on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy (2013)

Priority 6: Arrhythmias

• SIGN 94: Cardiac arrhythmias in coronary heart disease (February 2007)
• Healthcare Improvement Scotland Clinical Standards: Heart Disease (April 2010)
• SIGN Prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation: A guide for primary care (January 2014)
• ESC Guideline for the management of atrial fibrillation (2010)
• ESC Guideline on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy (2013)

Policy Context

Route Map to the 2020 Vision for Health and Social Care (May 2013)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0042/00423188.pdf

The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland (May 2010)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/311667/0098354.pdf

The 3-Step Improvement Framework for Scotland's Public Services (November 2013)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0042/00426552.pdf

2020 Framework for Quality, Efficiency and Value (June 2014)
http://www.qihub.scot.nhs.uk/media/607430/2020framework_12062014_final.pdf

Everyone Matters: 2020 Workforce Vision: Implementation framework and plan 2014-15 (Dec 2013)
http://www.workforcevision.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Implementation-Plan.pdf

Health Inequalities in Scotland (Audit Scotland, December 2012)
http://www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/docs/health/2012/nr_121213_health_inequalities.pdf

Making it Easy: A Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland (June 2014)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0045/00451263.pdf

Preventing overweight and obesity route map (February 2010)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/302783/0094795.pdf

Creating a Tobacco-Free Generation: A Tobacco Control Strategy for Scotland (March 2013)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00417331.pdf

Useful Websites

NHSScotland Quality Improvement Hub
http://www.qihub.scot.nhs.uk

Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP)
http://www.scottishpatientsafetyprogramme.scot.nhs.uk

Person Centred Care resources - QI Hub
http://www.qihub.scot.nhs.uk/person-centred.aspx

Everyone Matters: 2020 Workforce Vision
http://www.workforcevision.scot.nhs.uk

The ALISS Project - Accessing Local Information to Support Self management
http://www.aliss.scot.nhs.uk

The Health Foundation
http://www.health.org.uk