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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 Bromley.

This event is for Bromley 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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What needs to be done next and what do I do? Needs to be done. What do you need to do? BP >140/90 mmHg & ABPM/Home BP/Pharmacy <179/119 mmHg Check for DM & CKD See duty Dr / ANP BP >180/120 mmHg CVD Risk >20% See GP/ANP/Pharm Start a statin See GP/ANP/Pharm, CVD Risk 10-19% recommend a statin CVD Risk <10% NHS Health Check in 5 years See GP, check full lipid profile, TC>7.5 mml/L thyroid, liver, kidney, diabetes. Consider FH QDiabetes > 5.6 Check HBa1c Cambridge > 0.2 Leicester practice > 4.8 Leicester risk assessment >= 16 See duty Dr/ANP/Pharm HbA1c >48 Diabetes prevention HbA1c 42-48 programme Lifestyle advice HbA1c 37-42 Lifestyle advice HbA1c <37 Weight management BMI >30 programme, Diabetes prevention programme Complete rest of Audit C Audit C>5 Audit C 8-19 Offer advice, Drink Aware app Referral to specialist alcohol Audit C >20 services Irregular pulse ECG Smoker Stop smoking services Lifestyle Local and national services Better Health https://www.healthcheck.nhs.uk/commissioners-and-providers/national-guidance/