NHS Improvement - heart teamNHS Improvement System is a comprehensive online resource of tools, guides and case studies to support quality improvement in NHS services. The system supports the clinical specialties listed above and is available free to every NHS organisation in England.

Working in different ways, using a variety of service improvement tools, the Heart Improvement Programme supports cardiac networks and local teams to redesign their services and achieve sustainable changes to their services for staff and patients.

The work of the Heart Improvement Programme is closely aligned to the National Service Framework for CHD, and the team works closely with clinical leads and the Department of Health to implement policies and strategies to improve services for patients, carers and staff.

Supported by national clinical leads, for 2008 - 2011, the Heart Improvement Programme is focusing on the following work programmes:

  • Prevention and earlier diagnosis
    - Vascular checks
    - Rehabilitation - implementing the NICE guidelines
  • Sustainable cardiac pathways
  • Pathways for Heart failure Care
  • Reperfusion, primary angioplasty and pre-hospital thrombolysis
  • Chapter 8 - Sudden Cardiac Death/Inherited cardiac conditions and implantable devices. 
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NHS Heart Improvement Programme
Creating a Patient-led NHS - Delivering the NHS Improvement Plan
The NHS Plan technical supplement: Target setting for health improvement
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
How the NHS Manages Heart Attacks
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PHLCARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
CIRCULATORY DISEASE
HEART FAILURE
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
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