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Introduction The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released an updated guideline on stable chest pain in 2016.1 It marked a radical departure from the 2010 NICE and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines.2 They recommended that the pre-test probability risk score should not be used as it over-estimated the likelihood of coronary artery disease (CAD) and that all patients with chest pain, typical or atypical, should be investigated with computed tomography (CT) coronary angiography (CTCA) in the first instance. Functional imaging tests were reserved for the assessment of patients with chest pain and known CAD,