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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 City & Hackney.

Venue details are on the flyer that can viewed after you register and on the information email and City & Hackney Webpage on Smart Health Solutions.

This event is for City & Hackney 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
Behavioural change and motivational interviewing skills to help patients make lifestyle changes.

Who should attend

Practice Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Health Care Assistants

These sessions are only available to Nurses and Health Care Professionals who are committed to attending the full day session

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.

Hot lunch is provided. Please do let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements when you register.

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO PARKING ONSITE AT THE TOMLINSON CENTRE

Please email info@smarthealthsoluctions.co.uk with any queries

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NHS Health Check Explain the reasons for the NHS Health Check: Prevention of heart attacks, stroke and diabetes. 1 Conduct risk assessment • Age • Physical activity GP practice • Blood pressure above 140/90mmHg. Over 65s, include: • Sex questionnaire (eg GPPAQ) Repeat 3 times and record last • Pulse check, record • Ethnicity • Alcohol screeningAUDIT C result. If above 180/110, seek regular/irregular • Family history of ischemic heart disease • Smoking status immediate advice from Practice • Dementia awareness: Inform (IHD) - mother, father, brother or sister • Body Mass Index (BMI) Nurse or GP. about dementia services. Calculate risk score Discuss risk score In City & Hackney there 2 3 is a local scheme to The score relates to a person’s risk of Discuss CVD risk and healthy • NHS Stop Smoking Service referral identify people with having a cardiovascular event during the lifestyles. Signpost/refer to lifestyle Alcohol brief advice and/or referral QRisk 2 or 3 ≥20% as 10 years following the health check. programmes - record on template • Physical Activity advice and /or referral “High risk of CVD”, as Provide clear written and verbal information and provide written information. • Weight Management advice and/or indicated in the local NHS about risk score and what it means. referral Health Check template. Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk: Below 10% 10-19% Above 20% With no other risk factors – no blood tests required. Blood tests Blood tests • All: Total and HDL cholesterol • Total and HDL cholesterol • Those with BMI ≥ 30 (27.5 SouthAsian): also include • HbA1c, eGFR HbA1c, eGFR • ALT-Alanine aminotransferase, NOT full Results checked by Practice Nurse or GP LFT array Results checked by Practice Nurse or GP Blood test confirms CVD risk Blood test confirms CVD risk Blood test confirms CVD risk is ≥ 20%, or is < 10%: Advice by HCA, is 10-19%: Advice by GP or abnormal BP/eGFR/HbA1c: Advice by GP or record written information for Practice Nurse, record written Practice Nurse on management options. the individual. information for the individual. To be seen again in 5 years Review as necessary Annual review Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) qmul.ac.uk/blizard/ceg Using data to improve population health in North East London and beyond @QMUL_CEG