Detecting cardiovascular disease before it strikes
To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease by a quarter by detecting cardiovascular disease earlier, developing solutions faster and delivering them to the patient. That is the goal of the twenty-one partners of the Dutch CardioVascular Alliance. To that end, those partners want to raise at least 1 billion euros in the years to come. What will we do in 2022 to achieve that?
We are implementing a range of programmes to fulfil the DCVA's ambition. One of them is a top priority this year: Check@Home, in which we are studying a national approach for the early detection of heart, vascular and renal disease. The aim is to launch a pilot project in four major cities this year.
Priorities for 2022
DCVA Heart Failure action plan
Care for heart failure patients in the Netherlands is well organised and we play a prominent international role in research into this disease. Nevertheless, we lack the capacity needed to get further improvements off the ground properly. A project team launched a reconnaissance study in 2021. 2022 will see the follow-up to this study and the first steps in this field. That will include setting up a working group, organising funding and thinking about the options for a lobby plan.
Tackling knowledge gaps in cardiovascular disease
Care evaluation plays an important role in the work of the DCVA. We have spent the past year looking closely at knowledge gaps and partners' research agendas, and we have drawn up a list and a roadmap. In 2022, work will begin at the DCVA on the first topics selected from that list.
Impact plan & Theory of change
Developing research results into concrete applications and solutions for patients as quickly as possible is a core DCVA objective. One of the steps we have taken has therefore been to appoint an impact officer to help researchers during that process. NWO-TTW has devised an online training course about working with the impact plan. In 2022, the impact plan will be further improved and implemented by least six DCVA consortiums.
Main activities in each pillar in 2022:
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