TY - JOUR T1 - Deprived people less likely to get treatment to prevent heart disease JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 138 LP - 138 VL - 56 IS - 523 AU - Stephen Willott Y1 - 2006/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/56/523/138.abstract N2 - At Nottingham City PCT, with our own set of inequalities due to deprivation, we were very interested to read Peter Brindle et al's powerful paper.1It is clearly an important issue that the recommended risk assessment tools may be contributing to these health inequalities.I have three questions I would like to invite the authors to comment on: For our deprived areas of Nottingham, what practical implications does this have? I hope it will not be long until the QOF addresses primary prevention but at present at the practice level we have no means of altering primary care activity. Perhaps we could all look at those in the deprived areas who are at increased vascular risk but who currently score below the threshold for … ER -