National treatment targets
The National Service Framework
(NSF) outlined a series of priorities, milestones and goals to be
achieved to improve service quality, tackle variations in care and
reduce the number of deaths from coronary heart disease
(CHD).
Amongst the priorities the NSF outlined were the introduction of
specialist smoking cessation clinics, setting up chest pain clinics
to assess people with new symptoms for angina and an improvement of
ambulance response times.
In 2008/09, over 600,000 people in England attended NHS smoking
cessation services, and of these 50% reported that they were not
smoking four weeks after their quit date. By June 2001, there were
150 rapid-access chest pain clinics open across England. In 2008/09
ambulance services responded to 74% of emergency and urgent calls
in less than eight minutes.
More statistics can be found in our publication Coronary Heart
Disease Statistics 2010
Downloads
Outcome of NHS smoking cessation services 1999-2000 to
2007-08
Responses to emergency calls within 8 minutes by ambulance service
2004-05 to 2008-09 England
Thrombolytic treatment after heart attack 2004-05 to 2008-09,
England, Wales
National Stroke Strategy ten-point plan for action, 2007,
England