Project Objectives

The Braveheart project’s objectives are:

To promote awareness of and identify the risks of coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, coronary vascular angina.
To identify lifestyles and the ability to change.
To encourage evidence-based practice for primary prevention of heart conditions and implementation of appropriate standards.
To provide education to equip people with identified risks with the knowledge, attitude and motivation to effectively change or modify their lifestyle to maximise their health.
To promote the integration of secondary coronary heart disease clients amongst healthcare professionals enabling the formation of secondary coronary heart disease registers.
To produce evidence-based link guidelines for primary prevention of chronic vascular angina, coronary heart disease, diabetes, early detection of hypertension and improve the overall health of Lanarkshire.