S21 Ep41: Cardiovascular disease prevention in the North West Coast

Health Innovation North West Coast

A significant number of people across the North West Coast are unaware that they have high blood pressure.
And during the pandemic, the British Heart Foundation reported that nearly half a million people in the UK missed out on starting medication to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.
In this podcast, Dr Andy Knox, a GP in Lancashire and Cumbria who is also the area's associate medical director for population health; and the Innovation Agency's CVD prevention programme lead Dr Julia Reynolds tell Nigel Thompson how they hope to turn the tide by identifying more people with high blood pressure - many of whom are blissfully unaware they may have it.