What plans it has to develop a national strategy for the prevention of young sudden cardiac death.

Decisions on any future national strategy will be for the new administration to consider after the Scottish Parliament election in May.Under the current administration, we have been working to improve prevention of young sudden cardiac death (SCD) through delivery of the Heart Disease Action Plan (2021) and the Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy (2021-2026).We funded the West of Scotland Inherited Cardiac Conditions Service to strengthen the SCD pathway, including screening first-degree relatives affected by SCD. This project has received national scale-up funding from the British Heart Foundation.