General Practice and the Heart Foundation

We recognise the vital role that general practice plays in the prevention, diagnosis and ongoing management of cardiovascular disease.

In particular, we believe that general practice can improve outcomes for those with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease by:

• establishing practice systems for coronary heart disease (including registers and recall mechanisms)  
• facilitating lifestyle risk factor modification for all of these patients
• treating to target for biomedical risk factors
• diagnosing chronic heart failure early and titrating ACE inhibitor and beta-blocker therapy to the maximal dose (or as close to maximal dose as tolerated).

What You Can Find in Our General Practice Web Pages

Information to support general practitioners and practice nurses manage cardiovascular disease and its risk factors can be found in the following pages. These quick links give you easy access to key guidelines, clinical tools and patient resources that can be downloaded and printed during a consultation.

For other information, see Professional Information.

Quick links 

Guidelines and patient resources
Managing blood pressure and blood lipids 
Managing coronary heart disease including GPMP for CHD
Managing chronic heart failure
Managing lifestyle risk factors
Absolute risk
RACGP Online Learning Modules
GP Projects in NSW
Contacts for General Practice

Resources

• Improving cardiovascular health outcomes in Australian general practice  Download
• General practice engagement strategy update (2009)  Download

Want to give your patients more information but lack the time? Refer them to our Health Information Service on 1300 36 27 87.