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Women’s cardiovascular health needs more attention across the NHS
The British Heart Foundation says that coronary heart disease kills more than twice as many women in the UK as breast cancer each year, and that more than 800,000 women in the UK are living with coronary heart disease (British Heart Foundation, 2026; British Heart Foundation, 2023).
That makes the inclusion of CVD and Women’s Health in the 2026 Primary Care Show programme especially timely. The session is scheduled for 09:15 on 20 May in the GP Clinical Theatre, led by Raj Thakkar and Meredith Donaldson from the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society. In a UK primary care setting, that gives real visibility to a topic that has often been under-recognised.
There is also an important clinical awareness point here. The British Heart Foundation says it is a myth that women and men have fundamentally different heart attack symptoms, and warns that misconceptions around symptoms may delay diagnosis and make poorer outcomes more likely (British Heart Foundation, 2023).
https://www.bhf.org.uk/-/media/files/for-professionals/research/heart-statistics/bhf-cvd-statistics-uk-factsheet-jan26.pdf?rev=26534e1487094dbd806277891baef112 (accessed 18/03/2026)
https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/clinical-policy/cvd/ (accessed 18/03/2026)
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/medical/ask-the-experts/are-heart-attack-symptoms-different-for-men-and-women (accessed 18/03/2026)