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| Website: | About CVDPREVENT |
The National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care (CVDPREVENT) aims to support professionally-led quality improvement in primary care for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England. Its outputs support this by helping organisations to identify variation, trends and opportunities in the identification, diagnosis and management of CVD conditions. By offering reliable insights across practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), and regions, the audit empowers clinicians and system leaders to focus resources where they can have the greatest impact. For patients, this means earlier diagnosis, improved management of long-term conditions, and reduced risk of serious cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes.
CVDPREVENT uses data extracted from GP records. It supports primary care in understanding how many people with CVD or conditions that lead to a higher risk of developing CVD are potentially not identified, undiagnosed, under treated or possibly over-treated.
HQIP commissions workstream three of the CVDPREVENT audit, covering the reporting and quality improvement elements of the programme.
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of premature mortality in England, and continues to place a substantial burden on patients, communities and the health system.” CVDP annual report 2025
Supporting improvement
Analysis and reporting of the audit supports systematic quality improvement (QI) to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for individuals and populations. The CVDPREVENT website signposts teams to tools and approaches – such as QI Data Packs – to support their quality improvement journey.
Additional data and resources
In addition to HQIP-published reports below, further information can be found on the CVDPREVENT website.
Latest reports
Annual report 2025
- CVDPREVENT (National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care), workstream 3
CVDPREVENT, which aims to support quality improvement in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in...
Cardiovascular disease – annual report (CVDPREVENT)
- CVDPREVENT (National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care), workstream 3
CVDPREVENT, which focuses on using data to prevent cardiovascular disease, has published an annual audit...
Cardiovascular Disease-Inequalities in cholesterol management by sex (CVDPrevent)
- CVDPREVENT (National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care), workstream 3
The National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care (CVDPrevent) has published a deep...
CVDPREVENT Update – data up to March 2023
- CVDPREVENT (National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care), workstream 3
A short 2-page CVDPREVENT update, with data up to March 2023. This graphic focused update...
Cardiovascular disease – Third annual audit report (CVDPREVENT)
- CVDPREVENT (National Audit of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Primary Care), workstream 3
The CVDPREVENT Audit has published its third annual audit report. Covering the audit period up...
