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West Yorkshire and Harrogate Healthy Hearts programme

Posted on: 4 October 2018

Healthy Hearts people graphicWest Yorkshire and Harrogate Health Care Partnership is aiming to reduce the impact of heart disease across the region by proactively identifying people at risk of developing heart related illnesses and making sure they have the best medication.

The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Healthy Hearts website can be found here

Its ambition is to reduce the number of people affected by heart disease by 10 per cent by 2021. This would mean 1,100 fewer heart incidents by 2021.

A West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health Hearts project group has now been set up to drive these plans forward and this group is sponsored by the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health Care Partnership with delivery support being provided by the Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network.

The first phase of the project will focus on citizens at risk of heart disease as a result of high blood pressure (hypertension) and will be based on the successful work already carried out in Bradford through its Healthy Hearts programme.

This award winning programme has helped to reduce hospital admissions by 10 per cent, prevented 74 strokes and 137 heart attacks.

The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Healthy Hearts programme has now completed its public engagement on its upcoming work to identify and treat - at scale - patients whose LDL cholesterol levels that may be better controlled through switching to a high intensity statin, and also initiating a statin in those patients at risk of developing CVD. 

The engagement took place from the beginning of June until mid July 2019 and more than 200 responses were received, with some completing the online questionnaire and others giving their feedback in focus groups that took place across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

You can read more about this engagement work on the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Healthy Hearts website

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