Small trials with short term follow up suggest pharmacists’ interventions targeted at healthcare professionals
can improve prescribing. In comparison with clinical guidance, contemporary statin prescribing is sub-optimal and
achievement of cholesterol targets falls short of accepted standards, for patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease who
are at highest absolute risk and who stand to obtain greatest benefit. We hypothesised that a pharmacist-led complex
intervention delivered to doctors and nurses in primary care, would improve statin prescribing and achievement of
cholesterol targets for incident and prevalent patients with vascular disease, beyond one year