Stephen McPartland, Member of Parliament for Stevenage, is backing the British Heart Foundation (BHF)'s Wear It, Beat It campaign.

Stephen McPartland MP said “The UK medical research environment is essential to helping find life-saving cures and the science budget is vital to supporting this research.

“If we are to prevent and treat devastating conditions like cardiovascular disease, we need continued investment in pioneering research and that is why I am backing the British Heart Foundation's Wear It, Beat It, campaign to help guarantee the future of the science budget.”

A quarter of all deaths in the UK are caused by cardiovascular disease (CVD) and there are an estimated seven million people living with the condition. Medical research charities, like the BHF, rely on government investment, as for every £1 charities spend directly on medical research, the Government spends 26 pence.

The BHF is the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research and invests over £100 million every year.

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