The following heart disease audits are being run by the NHS Information Centre:

• cardiac rehabilitation
• pulmonary hypertension, and
• sudden arrhythmic death syndrome

Participating in the audits has a number of benefits including:

• allowing healthcare professionals to examine the management of patients with heart disease and use findings to identify and maintain improvements
• the potential to improve the quality of life and survival outcomes for patients which will also have a positive impact on NHS resource management
• providing evidence that local services are clinically and cost effective by meeting the standards set by the Department of Health, the Care Quality Commission and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

The following heart disease audits are now managed by NICOR (the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research) which was established by Sir Bruce Keogh, and is currently led by Professor Sir Roger Boyle and Professor John Deanfield, in association with the specialist clinical societies responsible for each of the national audits. NICOR sits within CPOC (the Cardiovascular Prevention and Outcomes Centre), which is part of the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at University College London.

• adult cardiac interventions
• cardiac rhythm management
• adult cardiac surgery service
• congenital heart disease
• heart failure
• myocardial infarction (including ambulance outcomes)

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