MINAP 15th Annual Report available

The latest Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) report, published today, contains information about the care provided to 85,000 people with heart attack by 13 ambulance services and 212 hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It demonstrates sustained high quality care in key indicators for heart attack patients, identifies areas for further improvement and continued vigilance, and also highlights the serious impact of smoking on the age of onset of heart attack.

Published: Jun 27, 2017 7:52:22 AM

Temporary Moratorium on Data Access Requests

NICOR are pleased to announce that Barts Health has been awarded the contract for the National Cardiac Audit Programme (NCAP). This follows successful negotiations with HQIP for the 2017-20 National Cardiac Audit contract extension.  The programme will be hosted at the Barts Heart Centre, one of Europe’s largest clinical cardiac treatment centres. The contract will start on 1 July 2017. NICOR will initiate a temporary moratorium on the processing of new third party data access requests from 1 May to 10 July 2017. This is to ensure the correct governance arrangements are in place to support the onward sharing of data.

Published: Apr 10, 2017 2:07:56 PM

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) release ‘Resuscitation to Recovery' Report

A group of clinical experts, led by Professor Huon Gray, National Clinical Director for Heart Disease, NHS England, released a national framework to improve the care of people following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 

Published: Mar 8, 2017 5:44:46 PM