Cardiac & Vascular Health Strategy for 2010-2020

The voluntary sector vision for change

Destination 2020 outlines the voluntary sector's key principles that should guide a new strategic government approach to cardiac and vascular conditions for the next decade. The ambitions of a new strategic approach should be to:

• Reduce the incidence of cardiac and vascular disease in England to one of the lowest levels in Western Europe , within a generation
• Reduce inequalities in the prevalence and treatment of cardiac and vascular disease across gender and geographic, social, economic and ethnic groups 
• Achieve better integration of the patient pathway across health and social care.

These ambitions should be achieved by:

1. Standards of excellence

2. A patient centred approach

3. A new focus on prevention

4. Effective commissioning

5. Research

6. Addressing specific areas of need

A pdf version of Destination 2020 can be downloaded here

Consultation for a Cardiac & Vascular Health Strategy 2010-2020 (Green Paper)

To help develop its recommendations for Destination 2020, in 2008 the CVC conducted its Consultation for a Cardiac & Vascular Health Strategy 2010 – 2020 (also called the Green Paper). Over 60 organisations submitted responses to the consultation, and the CVC gratefully acknowledges their contributions.

The consultation closed in January 2009. A pdf version of the Green Paper consultation can be downloaded here

Public survey

Listening to the views of patients is essential if we are to achieve gold standards in prevention and care. Accordingly, the CVC conducted its online public survey in parallel with the Green Paper consultation. Nearly 350 responses were received, and results from the survey will be published online in spring 2009.

Thank you to all those who took part in the Green Paper consultation and public survey!