A Best Practice Clinical Care Pathway for Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)


The Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI) has developed this quality improvement framework (QIF) to respond to recommendations made in the vascular surgery GIRFT programme report (2018).

Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is common, affecting 1 in 5 people over the age of 60 in the UK, and carries both the risk of lower limb loss and the increased risk of death from heart attack and stroke.

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