Impact of a community-based cardiovascular disease service intervention in a highly deprived area

What is it about?

We examined the impact of a consultant-led, community-based cardiovascular (CVD) diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation service, based in a highly deprived area of North West England, on emergency hospital admissions, length of stay and emergency re-admissions. We used a matched population as a control group to compare the change in outcomes between those who had received the service and those who had not, five years before the service was set up and five years after.
Results showed that the population that received the community-based CVD service had 97 fewer emergency CVD admissions per year than the control population. Results showed no significant measurable effect on length of stay or emergency re-admission rates. 
This consultant-led, community-based cardiovascular diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation service, was effective at reducing emergency hospital admissions in a highly disadvantaged population. 


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