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News story NEW NATIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR INTELLIGENCE NETWORK Today, PHE hosts the first major event bringing together key stakeholders from the National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network

(NCVIN). Announced earlier this year in the cardiovascular disease outcomes strategy, the NCVIN aims to use data and information to improve the quality of care and outcomes of communities,

patients and their families affected with diabetes, heart, stroke and renal diseases, viewing these as a single ‘family of conditions’. It will operate across organisations, including NHS

England, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), local authorities, charities, academic institutions and other organisations. Throughout the day, attendees will take part

in talking about the barriers and opportunities to link data across cardiovascular disease and how the network will inform service and quality improvement. John Newton, Chief Knowledge

Officer at PHE, said: > The network will enhance our ability to use authoritative data as a > powerful information source for healthcare professionals and policy > makers, as well 

to improve public health outcomes surrounding these > conditions. It’s crucial that we work with our partners, such as > NHS England and NICE, and the intelligence network is a great

> platform to do this. Professor Huon Gray, National Clinical Director for Heart Disease for NHS England and Chair of the National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network, said: > We know 

that although cardiovascular disease (CVD) may manifest > itself differently in individual patients, in practice it represents > a single family of diseases and conditions linked by 

common risk > factors and the direct effect they have on CVD mortality and > morbidity. Many people who have one CVD condition commonly suffer > from another and yet opportunities 

to identify and manage these are > often missed. By looking at information and data from the > perspective of a single family of cardiovascular disease, NCVIN > offers a real 

opportunity to work across the health and social care > sector and give the intelligence needed to inform improved and more > integrated care for people with CVD. The NCVIN will be 1

of 5 intelligence networks, with others including mental health, cancer, child and maternal health and end of life. Read the cardiovascular disease outcomes strategy. Visit PHE’s data and

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Twitter (opens in new tab) UPDATES TO THIS PAGE Published 11 December 2013