Your Healthier Future Toolkit

We’d love your support to promote Your Healthier Future, a new two-year programme to support local people to reduce their risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), made possible with public health funding from Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council. Please use this toolkit to encourage local people to participate in the programme, so that we can help our communities reduce their risk and stay healthier for longer. 

An exciting new initiative known as Your Healthier Future has been launched by the local NHS to help people in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Royston reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Cardiovascular disease is an umbrella term for heart and circulatory illnesses, including stroke and heart disease. In the first three months since its launch in late July, Your Healthier Future has already seen over 2,100 people take positive action to control their risk.  

Heart and circulatory disease is sadly a big cause of serious illness and death in the area – with 25% of all local deaths caused by CVD. With funding from Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council, NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough have now launched Your Healthier Future. This initiative will help participating GP practices identify those patients who are at higher risk of CVD, to offer them treatment, tools and support to help them live well for longer. 

Over the coming months you may receive a message from your GP practice inviting you to take part in Your Healthier Future because your records indicate you could be at higher risk. We want to help local people live longer, healthier lives, so if you are invited to participate, please do take up your invitation and get the support you need to work towards your own healthier future. 

You can find out more about Your Healthier Future, including the support available, via www.cpics.org.uk/your-healthier-future.  

Toolkit

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1	Cardiovascular disease, including strokes and heart disease, is a major cause of death in our area. If you’re invited by your GP practice to take part in Your Healthier Future, a new programme that can help you reduce your risk, please respond. Read more: www.cpics.org.uk/your-healthier-future		Photo of a young man wearing an apron, standing in a kitchen prepping food. Text reads: Take charge of your risk – Join your healthier future today – if your GP practice texts you to invite you to take part, please respond.
2	Over 2,100 people have already taken positive action to manage their risk of cardiovascular disease , such as strokes and heart disease, as part of Your Healthier Future. You can join them . If you’ve been invited by your GP to join Your Healthier Future, don’t wait— participating could significantly reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease. Visit www.cpics.org.uk/your-healthier-future to find out more.		Photo of an older couple dancing together, smiling. Text reads: Take charge of your risk – Join your healthier future today – if your GP practice texts you to invite you to take part, please respond.
3	Have you had a text message from your GP practice about Your Healthier Future? This exciting new programme can help you reduce your risk of heart and circulatory illnesses like strokes or heart disease , so you can live a longer, healthier life. Take control of your heart health today by accepting your GP’s invitation. Visit www.cpics.org.uk/your-healthier-future to find out more.		Photo of a woman wearing activewear, sitting outside in a nature setting. Text reads: Get help to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease – if your GP practice texts you to invite you to take part, please respond.
4	Lots of local GP practices are now offering their patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease support to reduce their risk through Your Healthier Future. If you get a text message from your practice inviting you to take part, please accept your invitation. Find out more via www.cpics.org.uk/your-healthier -future		Photo of a woman, smiling and hugging a toddler, standing outside in the sun. Text reads: Get help to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease – if your GP practice texts you to invite you to take part, please respond.