Our Impact Report for 2024/5
It’s been another incredible year of lowering cholesterol! In 2024/25, I’m delighted to say that we launched some important new services to lower cholesterol and save lives:
• We invested in broadening our online dietary services with our brand-new holistic programme called Cholesterol
SMART, which features many new resources to support our 3.4 million a year web users to lower their cholesterol by making changes to their diet and lifestyle.
• We delivered a number of face to face educational regional events for the public and for healthcare professionals.
• We established two pilot areas for our new ChangeMaker programme with expert volunteers influencing health boards at local level.
• We launched two new professional networks, one to support clinicians early in their careers with an interest in lipid (cholesterol and other blood fats) management and another for healthcare
professionals specialising in the care of children and young people with a genetic form of high cholesterol.
• We worked hard at national level and advocated to ensure that cardiovascular disease remains a top priority in the NHS and the Government’s 10 Year plan and for Lp(a), a genetic condition, to be
included in NICE’s guidelines on lipids.
There is still so much more we need to do to reduce premature disease and death from cholesterol and other blood fat conditions in the future. But we couldn’t do it without our wonderful volunteers
and generous donors and fundraisers.
Thank you so much for your support keeping families together for longer.
The HEART UK Team Jules Payne - Chief Executive