NHS Health Check Training

Delivered by Michaela Nuttall RGN MSc

Former Clinical Advisor Personalised Prevention OHID

Chair Health Care Committee HEART UK

This bespoke Face to Face NHS Health Check Training in Colindale is a great opportunity to update your knowledge nationally and locally, whilst networking with colleagues from across Barnet. The venue details are available on the Barnet NHS Health Check training webpage, the training email sent to practices by the commissioner and a flyer has been uploaded on this listing that can be accessed following registration.

This event is for Barnet 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.