What is a National Service Framework (NSF) Chapter 8?
The ‘National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease’ is a 10 year strategy setting quality standards for coronary heart disease care, aiming to reduce coronary heart disease and stroke related deaths. The chapter is based on the advice of expert groups (chaired by Roger Boyle), made up of patients, families of people who have died of sudden cardiac death and clinical experts in the field. The recommendations include introducing genetic testing in cases when a sudden unexplained cardiac death occurs.
The NSF for coronary heart disease:
- Sets out formal standards of care that local health communities are expected to achieve
- Helps NHS organisations focus on treatments that have been proven to be the most clinically effective and that represent the best value for money
- Promotes regional networking across health communities and encourages health professionals (such as GPs, nurses, hospital doctors and social care professionals) to work more closely together.
