Recommendations link to the key themes identified throughout the project;
- the current inequities in health status and access to timely and appropriate care for disadvantaged Australians, particularly Indigenous Australians;
- the role that prevention strategies have in reducing the overall and individual burden of disease;
- the value of supporting general practice and primary health care in CVD risk assessment, early detection and ongoing management of CVD;
- the importance of improving care processes at presentation to and throughout acute and immediate post-acute episodes of care;
- the need to improve uptake and support of clinical guidelines across all settings and at all stages of CVD;
- the importance of key performance indicators within an accountability framework against specific performance measures to monitor and improve acute, sub-acute and primary care performance for CVD;
- the importance of regularly monitoring and evaluating the impact of national strategies at a population level;
- the requirement for adequate information systems, research and data to support clinical care and outcomes measurement; and
- a desire for identified national leadership for CVD moving forward, through the development of a National Action Plan for CVD or similar.