European Commission unveils European Safe Hearts Plan 

European Commission unveils European Safe Hearts Plan 

On 16 December 2025, the European Commission unveiled the Safe Hearts Plan. It is the first ever EU approach to tackling cardiovascular disease, Europe’s biggest public health challenges, and is a part of the European Health Union.

The Safe Hearts Plan addresses the key challenges across the EU related to cardiovascular diseases, focusing on the needs of vulnerable population groups such as children and young people, women, and persons with disabilities. It supports Member States and stakeholders on health promotion and prevention, early detection and screening, treatment and care (including rehabilitation) of cardiovascular diseases.

The Safe Hearts Plan contains the following 10 initiatives:

1. A lifelong, personalised and digitally enabled prevention programme – ‘EU cares for your heart’
2. Empowering consumers through information on food processing in the EU
3. Modernising tobacco control legislation
4. The Commission will examine which appropriate tools, including possible financial actions, could be deployed to support/fund public health actions in the field of primary prevention and stimulate food reformulation and healthier consumer choices
5. Proposal for a Council recommendation on vaccination against respiratory infections as a preventive measure for cardiovascular diseases
6. EU protocol on health checks for cardiovascular diseases
7. Proposal for a Council recommendation on personalised treatment and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases
8. Incubator for innovation and integration of AI and digital technologies in cardiovascular healthcare
9. EU cardiovascular health inequalities dashboard
10. Cardiovascular Disease Research and Innovation Roadmap.

More information on the EU Safe Hearts Plan is available here.

Safe Hearts Action Plan is available here.