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Projects

SHARP Projects - Past, Present and Future

SHARP projects fall broadly into three groups:

Educational Facilities
These are pursued by various means:

  • The SHARP Cardiovascular Risk Pack. A set of succinct regularly updated guidelines to assist, in particular, primary care health teams to identify and treat those at highest risk.
  • Scientific Meetings at which speakers who are the opinion leaders in their particular field provide up to date evidence based information.
  • Production of literature.
  • Production of training videos.

The second type of project is to take the message of the need for a healthy lifestyle to the public in general.


The SHARP Bus
A mobile screening unit in the form of a highly visible double-decker bus which has travelled throughout Scotland and screened more than 20,000 people mainly at their place of work.

Another project was the SHARP 'Eating for Life' video and accompanying workbook aimed at secondary pupils. This was sent to al secondary schools in Scotland and was incorporated into the Higher Still curriculum

The third type of project involves SHARP not only initiating research into the prevention of heart disease but also supporting the research of others. SHARP now has the largest database of cardiovascular risk factors in the UK and research using this database has great potential for furthering our knowledge.

 

The SHARP Bus
mobile screening unit in the form of a highly visible double-decker bus.

 

 

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