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Volunteering has changed since the Covid-19 pandemic. Our volunteering report is about how we can maximise the value and benefits of volunteering. It includes recommendations for how the Government can support this.

On 30th June, the Government announced its long-awaited NHS Long Term Workforce Plan – a landmark 15-year strategy for recruiting and retaining more NHS staff, and reforming how healthcare professionals work and train in England.

People in the most polluted areas could be 27 per cent more likely to develop heart failure

New imaging technology can identify smaller blood clots that current heart scans cannot pick-up, and could help guide more efficient treatment for people who’ve had a heart attack, according to research we've funded and presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Women have a 50% higher chance than men of receiving the wrong initial diagnosis following a heart attack, according to a new study we part-funded at the University of Leeds.

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Checking blood pressure daily at home could cut the risk of a future heart attack or stroke for new mothers who had high blood pressure during pregnancy, based on a study funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the journal Hypertension.

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University of Nottingham | Professor Philip Bath

High blood pressure is common in people who have a stroke because of a blood clot or a bleed – called ischaemic or haemorrhagic stroke – and people are more likely to die or become disabled because of it. So far trials to lower blood pressu...

We've partnered with the British Cardiovascular Society to carry out a census of the cardiac workforce in England.