The Cardiac Group aims to provide education and training, and network support across the interface for pharmacists involved with patients with cardiac disease.

The Group intends to:

• Share and exchange ideas and resources
  
• Provide education and training events
  
• Encourage and support practice research
  
• Share clinical experience, evidence and best practice

Did you know that……….

Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s biggest killer accounting for over 235,000 deaths a year.

CHD by itself is the most common cause of death in the UK accounting for around 125,000 deaths a year: approximately one in four deaths in men and one in six deaths in women.

Over 2 million people in the UK have angina, half a million have heart failure and these numbers are rising.
Every two minutes someone has a heart attack