Table 2. Aspirations and solutions to facilitate cardioprotective prescribing

  • Bolstering and sufficiently funding primary care

  • Improving IT systems for screening and monitoring

  • Enhancing communication between physical and mental care teams

    • Patients attending multidisciplinary team meetings

    • Joint mental and physical health consultations

  • Improving patients’ baseline quality of life through the provision of lifestyle community interventions

  • Embedding core workers, for example, mental health nurse, pharmacist, link worker

    • Providing key person for patient physical health discussions