Published 3 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2253
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2253

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Cardiac services have improved in UK but more capacity needed

Zosia Kmietowicz

1 London

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Heart patients in the United Kingdom had considerably better access to emergency and life enhancing cardiac procedures in 2006 than in 2000, the first systematic mapping study has found. But to meet the predicted needs for cardiac services in 2020, some regions need to increase the number of procedures they perform substantially; some, such as implanting defibrillator devices, need to expand by up to 13% a year.

Results of the study, which was commissioned by the British Cardiovascular Society, the British Heart Foundation, and the Cardio and Vascular Coalition, show that the provision of cardiac interventions rose in all regions in the UK in the six years since 2000. Overall, 152 000 more treatments were performed between 2000 and 2006, a rise of 59%. The largest rise was seen in the number of revascularisation procedures performed, up from 59 047 in 2000 to 100 418 in 2006, a rise of . . . [Full text of this article]


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