There are nearly three million people in the UK living with
heart disease. Two million of those have angina.
Treatment for heart disease cost the NHS £3.2 billion in
2006, while production losses accounted for a further £3.9
billion.
A free lecture on Thursday 27 January by Gill Furze, Professor
in Adult Nursing and Health Care at Coventry University, will be
exploring the different ways that angina can be treated and will
explore why a bio-psychosocial model is needed to inform care and
education for people with other long-term conditions.
Professor Furze said:
"Stable angina is frequently treated according to a biomedical
model of care involving costly invasive interventions, which often
goes against the evidence base.
"The evidence for supporting people with angina to reduce their
risk of further heart disease by learning how to self-manage their
long term condition is largely ignored.
"I will be looking at how self-management is the way forward and
sharing examples of best practice."
The lecture: 'Biomedical vs Bio-psychosocial treatments: the
example of angina' takes place on Thursday 27 January at 6pm in the
Humber Lecture Theatre in the George Eliot Building at Coventry
University.
Admission is free but you will need to book at place by calling
Suky Dhillon on 024 7679 5294 or by email
at suky.dhillon@coventry.ac.uk
Refreshments will be available from approximately 7pm.
For more information about Coventry University, please visit
their website here: www.coventry.ac.uk