How the (a) treatment, (b) care and (c) life expectancy of patients with heart failure in Scotland compares with the rest of the UK.

Scotland has some of the best health service data in the world and on an annual basis produces information on a range of heart conditions in Scotland. There is evidence, that life expectancy for people with coronary heart disease, the main cause of heart failure, is increasing year on year in Scotland. Information is not collected centrally to allow directly comparable statistics on the life expectancy of patients with heart failure in the rest of the UK.
Recent data suggests that the number of people surviving 30 days after hospital discharge with a diagnosis of heart failure is also increasing but there is scope for further improvement. The Scottish Government is prioritising quality improvement strategies for heart failure and will continue to work with the Scottish Patient Safety Programme to encourage reliable delivery of the heart failure bundle to advance the treatment, care and life expectancy of people living with heart failure across Scotland.