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:

  • half 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 areas of Research, Information, Policy, Care and Equality.

You can read some of the highlights of our work against each of these objectives here.