Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Conference 2018

Getting Serious About Prevention: reducing variation and optimising care

On 8 February 2018, Public Health England held its fifth annual conference, 'Getting serious about prevention: reducing variation and optimizing care', chaired by Dr Sarah Jarvis. The event was a huge success with over 400 stakeholders, including commissioners, providers and academics coming together to share, learn and act together to improve our efforts on preventing ill health and premature death from cardiovascular disease.

You can access the presentations from the morning plenary speakers:

• Professor Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing, London Borough of Southwark
• Professor Jamie Waterall, National Lead, NHS Health Check Programme, Public Health England

A keynote address was also given by:

• Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive of Public Health England

Read Jamie Waterall's blog to find out more about the event.

The event also included training, roundtable discussions as well as a range of oral and poster presentations sharing learning and innovation. Resources and presentations from the sessions can be accessed below.

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Session 1

1A: An introduction to health coaching: better conversations, better health

• An introduction to health coaching: better conversations, better health - Dr Penny Newman

1B: Maximising the local impact and cost effectiveness of the NHS Health Check programme

• Innovations to reduce the burden of the NHS Health Check on primary care – Angela Eden
• Health Check Trial (HECTR): Risk-tailored invitations to improve uptakes of NHS Health Check - Christopher Gidlow
• How do we get the best outcomes from NHS Health Checks? workHORSE: an NIHR funded Health Technology Assessment of the NHS Health Checks - Brendan Collins
• Dementia and Risk Reduction: Extending messaging to 40-64 year olds through the NHS Health Check – Susan Mitchell
• The CVD Risk Report, an intervention to support CVD risk communication in NHS Health Checks: results from the pilot trial - Meredith Hawking 

1C: NHS Health Check:  Getting the most from commissioning.

• Behavioural Science and weighting financial remuneration of the NHS Health Check to increase take up of checks - Gemma Brinn
• Optimising effectiveness of the NHS Health Check Programme in Hull – Delivering CVD services in local government - Sally Barlow

1D: Size of the Prize: driving improvement in CVD prevention by doing things differently

• System wide approach to improve outcomes in atrial fibrillation - Raj Thakkar 
• Community blood pressure testing in Haringey and Islington to improve detection rate - Negrin Sarafraz-Shekary     
• Implementing the RightCare CVD Prevention Pathway - Amy Bowen
• Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service screening for atrial fibrillation - Mike Larking
• AHSN support for CVD prevention in Yorkshire and Humber - Tony Jamieson

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Session 2

2A: Future, engage, deliver: leadership for CVD prevention

• Future Engage Deliver – Mark Patterson

2B: Health care professionals role in supporting behaviour change

• Implementing multiple behaviour change interventions after health checks in primary care: a qualitative study - Samah Alageel
• Moving health care professionals – Nick Clarke
• Physical Activity Clinical Champions: changing HCP’s behaviour on promoting Physical Activity and lifestyle medicine -  Dr Zoe Williams
• The role of healthcare professionals in treating tobacco dependency: opportunities to reduce CVD for commissioners and practitioners - Allan Gregory and  Qasim Chowdary
• Who’s the expert? Increasing your workforce at zero cost - Steve Freeman 1, 2, 3

2C: Digital approaches to cardiovascular disease prevention

• User experience led design: Developing an online health checker in York - Jennifer Saunders and Paul Ramskill
• Cardiovascular disease self-management apps: barriers to adoption - Hessah Alaslawi
• Heart Age – how to engage a mass audience - Martin Moth

2D: A round up of learning from the roll out of the NHS Diabetes prevention programme

• Progress on the NDPP – Tom Newbound and Ben McGough
• Improving practice in diabetes risk assessment as part of the NHS Health Check delivery in GP practices – Cathy McMahon

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Session 3

3A: When is ‘low risk’, not a ‘low risk’: communicating risk scores effectively

• When is low risk not a ‘low risk’? - Michaela Nuttalll

3B: Ensuring equity and reducing inequality through CVD prevention programmes

• Uptake of NHS Health Checks in Migrants living in Hackney and the City of London - Tara Piasetski
• Reducing CVD risk in people with severe mental illness - Sheila Hardy
• Improving access to screening: Exploring the role of Point of Care Testing for people with a learning disability - Karen Giles
• Health Checks Equity Audit - Gerrard Abi-Aad

3C: An international perspective on CVD prevention

• Tips and Traumas from Million Hearts- Janet Wright
• Hypertension Canada – Dr Nadia Khan and Dr Doreen Rabi

3D: Enhancing opportunities to detect Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

• Chair's opening - Dr Matt Kearney
• Opportunities to enhance FH detection via the NHS Health Check programme - Joanne Whitmore
• Cost effectiveness of cascade testing for FH, based on data from FH services - Steve Humphries
• Scaling up: A FH Service fit for England - Robert Pears

Knowledge and Intelligence Zone

• An overview of NCVIN - Rachel Clark
• Using Fingertips to understand CVD - Denise McCoy & Sylvia Godden
• CVD data resources: focus on Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and hypertension - James Hollinshead
• CVD data resources: focus on diabetes - Rachel Clark

Page reviewed: 17/03/2021