00:01Heart disease is one of the biggest killers facing people all across Wales
00:05and the British Heart Foundation say that according to their most recent figures
00:09heart health is at its lowest rate in 50 years.
00:12Something that they say they want to tackle as part of their most recent strategy
00:16to get people thinking about their hearts and using modern technology to help people live healthier lives.
00:22Research into the issues and modernising the way heart health is combated
00:26is vitally important to BHF and they're confident that their new plan will help people all across the country.
00:32We know that heart health is a huge issue in Wales.
00:35The data shows us it's been the worst start to a decade for heart health in Wales since the 1970s.
00:39So it's a bit of a tragic picture.
00:41But we believe our BHF strategy will be the key to helping everyone in Wales live a healthier life for longer.
00:48So, yeah, the intention of our strategy is to be focusing on medical research,
00:52investing in cutting edge areas like AI, data science, genomics,
00:56that hopefully will prevent, kind of treat and hopefully cure cardiovascular disease.
01:03It's all about collaboration. We can all do our bit to improve our heart health.
01:06The Welsh Government can do their part along with the NHS,
01:09as well as charities like British Heart Foundation,
01:11and want to work together to help people live as healthy as possible,
01:15but also make the most of modern technology and methods of care that can give people early diagnosis,
01:20find hidden problems and generally give people a better chance when fighting against heart disease.
01:25But we need to work in collaboration with Welsh Government, with the NHS to improve care and support.
01:31We want to invest more money in cardiovascular research.
01:34We want to kind of embrace advances in technology.
01:37That's where we want to put our money to look at how kind of artificial intelligence and data science,
01:42hopefully can predict people in Wales that are at risk,
01:46so we can maybe save them before they even become a problem.
01:50And also the ongoing development of the cardiovascular disease prevention program for Wales,
01:55in conjunction with Welsh Government, is a prime opportunity for us to, again,
02:00collaborate with Welsh Government, the NHS and communities across Wales
02:04to improve care and the stats across Wales.
02:09Wales fares badly, generally, in terms of heart health.
02:12We've got an older, sicker population than around the rest of the UK,
02:15and issues within our NHS have pushed the problem further than before.
02:19It's affecting people all across Wales, and with upcoming Senate elections,
02:22the British Heart Foundation say that they want to get heart health at the top of people's priorities,
02:27and see funding to improve their dire situation we're currently facing.
02:31That's partly because of a few issues, we can't put our finger on it,
02:35but I think it's health inequalities across the country,
02:38again, increasingly healthy, unhealthy population,
02:42and obviously the unprecedented kind of pressure on the NHS has affected,
02:48but we are working with Welsh Government and we will be working with Senedd elections
02:53and all the kind of parties building up to next year's election
02:57to make sure that cardiovascular disease is a priority.
03:00what we do is to avoid those numbers.
03:01This is quite a good report on the NHS.
03:05The NHS is very forward to all of our centres that have supported us.
03:06Here we go.
03:07We'll start on the NHS.
03:09We'll come back.
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