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CHSS Manifesto 2011

Working together for a healthier future

• 235,000 Scots have coronary heart disease
• 107,000 Scots live with the effects of stroke
• 101,000 are affected by chronic chest illness
• Scotland is no longer the heart disease capital of the western world, but far too many Scots still develop chest, heart and stroke illness

• Together, chest, heart and stroke diseases still account for half of all deaths in Scotland

Progress has been made – but more needs to be done

The CHSS Manifesto recommends a set of actions that will support Scotland to deliver world–class healthcare, and enhance our excellent reputation for research and innovation in health.

Priorities over the next Parliament: a call to action

• Protect Health Service investment
• Ensure that the resources are there to fund innovation
• Maintain funding for post–discharge support services
• Support the role of voluntary organisations and individual volunteers in the long–term support of patients
• Support people back to work
• Maintain the Keep Well and Well North programmes, and extend their remits to cover prevention of COPD
• Give patients a voice!
• Extend Scotland's successful tobacco control measures
• Encourage Local Authorities to improve the provision of both health education and physical activity in schools
• Support medical research

More information

The CHSS Manifesto 2011 is now available to download (see Related Documents opposite).

Copies are also available from:

Head Office
Third Floor
Rosebery House
9 Haymarket Terrace
Edinburgh EH12 5EZ

Tel: 0131 225 6963

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