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Cardiovascular risk assessment and lipid modification

  • Quality standard
  • Reference number: QS100
  • Published:  04 September 2015
  • Last updated:  23 July 2025
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  1. Implementation support
  2. Audit and service improvement
  3. Decision aids
  4. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools and resources to help you put the guidance into practice.

Implementation support

  • CVDPREVENT integrated care boards quality improvement packs

  • NHS England summary of national guidance for lipid management

  • Implementation resources

  • Medscape resources: guideline summaries and articles on implementing the guideline

  • NHS England statin intolerance pathway

  • How to use quality standards

Audit and service improvement

  • Quality standard service improvement template (Excel 1.18 MB)

    Published:
    04 March 2025

Decision aids

  • Patient decision aid on should I take a statin? (PDF 806 KB)

    Published:
    24 May 2023
  • Patient decision aid information

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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