Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland becomes an affiliate charity of Our Future Health 02 October 2024 Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland has joined as an affiliate charity of the UK’s largest health research programme. We are proud to contribute our expertise to Our Future Health. By joining forces with Our Future Health, charities are also able to shape their programme to ensure it is fit to serve the research needs of a range of diseases and conditions. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland is the largest Scottish health charity, working to help people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid live life to the full. Our vision is to help ensure Scotland is a place where people with these conditions can live their lives well. Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland offers support to those recovering and campaigns for better services, as well as working with partners to develop new solutions to help those living with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid. Chest, heart and stroke conditions 1.1 million people in Scotland are currently living with a chest, heart or stroke condition, or Long Covid which equates to 1 in 5 people. It’s estimated that, each day in Scotland, 41 people will have a stroke, 32 people will have a heart attack, and 16 people will be diagnosed with heart failure. Roughly 300,000 Scottish people live with coronary heart disease, which is the most common cause of death in Scotland. A further 180,000 are living with Long Covid. Affiliate charities Our Future Health is joining with many of the UK’s leading health research charities who are providing valuable support and expertise to help develop Our Future Health. They will make a big impact in allowing us to ultimately change the way we prevent, detect and treat diseases. Jane-Claire Judson, CEO of Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland commented: “We are excited to be working in partnership with Our Future Health to work towards the goal of preventing, detecting and treating chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid. “Our vision is that everyone living with our conditions should be able to access the right support, in the right place, at the right time for them. Working together with key healthcare partners is an essential part of realising that vision.” Dr Raghib Ali, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health, said, “We’re so pleased to partner with Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland as an affiliate charity. We recently opened our first clinics in Scotland to welcome more Scottish people to our programme. We know that chest, heart and stroke conditions affect over 1 million people in Scotland, and Our Future Health will help change health outcomes for those affected by these conditions.” Learn about how Our Future Health will change the future of research into heart disease and stroke.