Making our vision a reality
Our vision couldn’t be much more ambitious - a world
where people no longer die prematurely from heart
disease.
When you have a vision that big in mind, it
helps to set some milestones along the way. That’s why we’ve set a
number of objectives to guide our day-to-day work.
But we can’t do any of it alone. We are working alongside
government, other health charities, healthcare professionals and
thousands of dedicated supporters to beat heart disease. Everybody
has a part to play.
Aims and objectives
Our mission is to play a leading role in the fight against
disease of the heart and circulation, so that it is no longer a
major cause of disability and premature death.
In our strategy report,
Beating heart disease together (published in 2007), we stated
that:
Within a generation, we aim to:
- reduce cardiovascular disease in the UK to one of the lowest
levels in Europe.
Within a decade, we aim to:
- halve the number of people under 75 who die from cardiovascular
disease
- make sure at least two thirds of people under 75 survive a
heart attack
- reduce heart-related deaths in all UK local authority areas to
the current level in South East England or below
- reverse the increase in childhood obesity.
To help us get there, we’ve set a number of objectives across
the following areas:
To make all this work possible, we rely on your generous
donation of time and money.
