Why the study?
Cardiovascular disease management requires a multidisciplinary approach, but current service models must be transformed to better integrate allied professionals in addressing challenges like health inequalities, suboptimal guideline adherence, and resourcing issues.
Integrating allied professionals through shared pathways and competency frameworks is essential to address key challenges in cardiovascular disease management.
Allied professionals may help address CVD inequalities; leaves open optimal integration models and competency frameworks.
Management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) requires a multidisciplinary approach based on expert input from physicians, nurses, and many different allied professionals (APs). Key challenges in CVD include health inequalities, sub-optimal risk factor detection and adherence with clinical guidelines, human resourcing issues, and inadequate patient education. Allied professionals can play key roles in addressing these challenges. However, current service models will need to be transformed to better integrate APs. Appropriate strategies may include the development of shared pathways with improved definition of roles and responsibilities, creation of ‘competency frameworks’ to facilitate advanced practice among APs, and enhanced sharing of best practice models.
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Back et al. (2026) studied this question. A multidisciplinary approach incorporating allied professionals is essential to effectively manage cardiovascular disease and address existing healthcare inequalities.
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