CVDACTION has been built to transform cardiovascular disease prevention. The mission to reduce deaths from heart attack and stroke by 25 per cent in ten years will not be delivered without a step change in the use of high-impact treatments in conditions that cause cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as hypertension, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease and diabetes. Underuse of these treatments is longstanding and substantial because optimisation is difficult in real-world primary care. Solutions need to address why it is difficult. Size of the Prize shows that thousands of heart attacks and strokes would be prevented every year if treatment optimisation improved to realistic levels of ambition.

CVDACTION is a smart data tool that make it much easier for GPs to spot and treat patients who are at high risk of heart attack and stroke, providing data that helps with capacity, prioritisation, multimorbidity and inequalities, and data that is easy to action.
The CVDACTION demonstrator programme, involving ten primary care networks and 600,000 people, included the CVDACTION tool plus structured implementation support to address key barriers to transformation in primary care.

In this session we will share the outcomes from the CVDACTION programme and critical learning that focuses not just on the what to do to transform CVD prevention, but on the how to do it in the real world.