Heart attacks kill thousands each year because of poor NHS aftercare, study says

Researchers say there were 33,000 avoidable deaths in 10 years because patients did not receive proven treatments

Thousands of people a year are dying unnecessarily after a heart attack because NHS follow-up care is so poor, a study says.

Six in seven of the 40,000 heart attack patients a year miss out on at least one of the treatments that have been proven to reduce their risk of having another one and dying, it found.