What is CVDPREVENT
About the audit
COMMISSIONED BY
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient
Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP)
FUNDED BY
NHS England (NHSE) DELIVERED BY
NHS Benchmarking Network, NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGEM) and NHSE
PATIENT INVOLVEMENT
The Patients Association and a Patient Focus Group
CVDPREVENT is a national primary care audit that uses data extracted from GP records. It supports primary care in understanding how many people with cardiovascular disease (CVD), or conditions that lead to a higher risk of developing CVD, are potentially not identified, undiagnosed, under-treated or possibly over-treated. Analysis and reporting of the audit supports systematic quality improvement (QI) to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes for individuals and populations.
The audit aims to support professionally led quality improvement in primary care for the prevention of CVD in England. Its outputs help organisations to identify variation, trends and opportunities in the identification, diagnosis and management of CVD conditions.
NHS Benchmarking Network receives aggregated data with small numbers suppressed only, and therefore does not process personal data as regulated in the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. To ensure patient involvement in the audit, NHSBN works closely with the Patients Association and runs a Patient Focus Group.
Sources of data
Data is extracted for people who fall withing the following cohorts:
Cohort 1
High-risk conditions
People with a coded diagnosis of at least one of the following six high-risk conditions:
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Atrial fibrillation (AF)
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Hypertension
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Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) and
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other hyperlipidaemias
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
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Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (NDH)
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Type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus
Cohort 2
Pre-existing cardiovascular disease
People with pre-existing CVD comprising at least one of the following:
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD)
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Stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
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Coronary heart disease (CHD)
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Heart failure (HF)
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
Cohort 3
Case finder
People with clinical records that suggest the possibility of an undiagnosed high-risk condition.
For example, this cohort includes people with high blood pressure readings recorded (over the threshold that would
classify them as having hypertension) who do not have a formal diagnosis of hypertension recorded on their GP record.
"The CVDPREVENT audit is a valued resource that provides NICE with insight into how our
CVD guidance is being used across general practice."
Mark Minchin
Associate Director, Quality, NICE