Coronary heart disease: an update on progress of the NSF.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a preventable disease, yet is kills over 100,000 people a year in the UK. CHD was among the first conditions to be addressed by a national service framework (NSF), published in 2000. Five years on, this article discusses the key tenets of the NSF that apply to primary care and how they should be being implemented, and discusses what else the Government is doing to tackle this common and costly condition.
Peacock
Shelley
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Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London. shelley.peacock@kcl.ac.uk
D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce