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NHS Health Check Training

Delivered by Michaela Nuttall RGN MSc

Former Clinical Advisor Personalised Prevention OHID

Chair Health Care Committee HEART UK

This is a Face to Face event, this bespoke NHS Health Check Training is a great opportunity to update your knowledge nationally and locally, whilst networking with colleagues from across Wiltshire.

This event is for Wiltshire only, please visit the Smart Health Solutions website for more information on the NHS Health Check training.

This course will provide the learner with updated knowledge and understanding to support them in carrying out an NHS Health Check assessment and to inform the client of the significance of their results and their risk, providing brief advice if required.

It provides underpinning knowledge for the core competences and technical competences described in the NHS Health Check competence framework produced by Public Health England.

Learning Outcomes

  • State why NHS Health Checks are important.
  • Identify non-modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
  • Identify modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
  • Know the NHS Health Check filters
  • State how an NHS Health Check should be conducted.
  • Identify how an NHS Health Check can assess and interpret the risk of cardiovascular disease.
  • State how the risk of cardiovascular disease and opportunities for reducing this risk may best be communicated

Who should attend

Anyone involved in the delivery of health checks including:

  • Practice Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • GPs
  • Health Care Assistants
  • Care co-ordinators
  • Social Prescribers
  • Administration
  • Practice Staff
  • Pharmacists
  • Allied Healthcare Professionals
  • Health Trainers & Champions
  • Healthy Lifestyle Professionals

Certificates of participation are available to all attendees on submission of evaluation and handouts for each course are available for future reference via the MedAll platform.

We are a registered Centre for the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), and HEART UK supports our cardiovascular training. The NHS Health Check Competency Framework underpins our training.

We are proud of our strong heritage in supporting the NHS Health Check Programme, especially for training we have been providing since 2008 and that we have won all training tenders we have bid for.

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AUDIT – C This isone unit of alcohol… Scoring system Your Questions score 0 1 2 3 4 How often do youhave adrink containing alcohol? Never Monthly 2 - 4 times 2 - 3 times 4+ times per or less per month per week week How many units of alcoholdoyou drink on atypicalday when you are drinking? 0 -2 3 - 4 5 - 6 7 - 9 10+ How often have youhad 6 or more units if female, or 8 or more if male, on asingle Less than Daily or occasion in the last year? Never monthly Monthly Weekly almost daily How often during the last year have you found that you were notable to stop Less than Daily or Never Monthly Weekly drinking once you had started? monthly almost daily How often during the last year have you failed to do what was normally expected Less than Daily or Never monthly Monthly Weekly almost daily from you because of your drinking? How often during the last year have you needed an alcoholic drink in the morning Never Less than Monthly Weekly Daily or to get yourself going after aheavy drinking monthly almost daily session? How often during the last year have you had afeeling of guiltor remorse after Never Less than Monthly Weekly Daily or drinking? monthly almost daily How often during the last year have you been unable to remember whathappened the night before because you had been Never Less than Monthly Weekly Daily or monthly almost daily drinking? Have you or somebody else been injured Yes, butnot Yes, during as aresult of your drinking? No in the last the last year year Has arelative or friend, doctor or other Yes, butnot health workerbeen concerned aboutyour Yes, during No in the last the last year drinking or suggested thatyou cutdown? year