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Coronary heart disease: national service framework for coronary heart disease - modern standards and service models
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Document type:Guidance
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Author:Department of Health
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Published date:6 March 2000
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Primary audience:Health and social care professionals
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Product number:16602
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Gateway reference:Not required
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Copyright holder:Crown copyright
The National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease (NSF CHD), published in March 2000, set out a strategy to modernise CHD services over ten years. It details 12 standards for improved prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation and goals to secure fair access to high quality services.
- Download NSF CHD - Main document (PDF, 604K)
- Executive summary
- Download Chapter one: Reducing heart disease in the population (PDF, 176K)
- Download Chapter two: Preventing coronary heart disease in high risk patients (PDF, 186K)
- Download Chapter three: Heart attacks and other acute coronary syndromes (PDF, 451K)
- Download Chapter four: Stable angina (PDF, 116K)
- Download Chapter five: Revascularisation (PDF, 168K)
- Download Chapter six: Heart failure (PDF, 322K)
- Download Chapter seven: Cardiac rehabilitation (PDF, 287K)
- Chapter eight - arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death - implementation (published 4 March 2005)
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