Everybody should have access to the best available treatment and care. But too often they do not.
We are committed to better understanding the inequalities that we know exist, so that we can improve our efforts to close the gaps.
Our 2025 report Bridging Hearts considers how deprivation, sex and ethnicity can impact people’s cardiovascular health in the UK.BHF’s Health Insights and Policy and Public Affairs teams have published a report which considers how level of deprivation, sex and ethnicity can impact a person’s cardiovascular health.
Cardiovascular inequalities in England: an analysis
We brought together data that looks into how deprivation impacts heart and circulatory diseases in England.
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Cardiovascular inequalities in Scotland: an analysis
We've put together a thorough analysis of how heart and circulatory diseases, along with their risk factors, are connected to deprivation in Scotland.
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Cardiovascular inequalities in Northern Ireland: an analysis
The report provides a holistic view of health inequalities related to cardiovascular disease in Northern Ireland. It aims to help us understand both the strengths within the health system and where improvement is needed.
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Cardiovascular inequalities in Wales: an analysis
Explore our report that examines the association between deprivation and cardiovascular disease in Wales.
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Exploring socioeconomic inequalities in coronary heart disease
We created a tool with the Strategy Unit to explore where inequalities lie across the coronary heart disease pathway.
More about the tool
What the research shows
When compared to the least deprived areas, the most deprived areas in England have:

higher death rates from cardiovascular disease

lower uptake of cardiac rehabilitation

higher hospital admissions rates for emergency care
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