About your Council

  The principal objectives of the Council are outlined below:

• The Council will be a conduit for Primary Care.
• It will represent the interests of Primary Care at European level.
• It will improve the dissemination of guidelines and the feasibility of their implementation locally.
• Identify the sources of information of General Practitioners to enhance promotion of Primary Care activities.

ESC groups represented on the Council:

• Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions
• Council for Cardiology Practice
• Working Group on Hypertension and the Heart
• Heart Failure Association
• European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation
• Joint European Societies Cardiovascular Prevention Committee

Non-ESC groups:

• European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society
• European Society of Hypertension
• European Stroke Organisation