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Prevention In the opening session on prevention strategies, Dr Brendan Lloyd, Medical Director, Cardiff Local Health Board commented that these must be carefully chosen based on the evidence and focused towards those most likely to show the most benefit, ie. higher risk patients. However, as Dr Phil Webb, All Wales Specialist Commissioner of Cardiothoracic Services pointed out, without an appreciation of the spectrum of decisions that influence healthcare managers, clinicians cannot begin to understand their reasoning. Dr Terry McCormack, a Whitby GP and PCCS Chairman, showed that, according to national statistics, coronary heart disease (CHD