CVD Management in Primary Care webinar - Nov 2021

This webinar was aimed at Practice Managers / PCN Clinical Directors / GPs / Pharmacists / Nurse Prescribers / Healthcare Assistants

The webinar offers an overview of the national, regional and local CVD resources available to support PCNs with CVD management, including how the Yorkshire & Humber AHSN and Community Pharmacy can support this work.

Hypertension

• Evidence based treatment guidance for blood pressure management
• How to get your patients to monitor their BP at home and the digital solutions available to support this
• Using clinical searches to easily find patients that are missing from hypertension registers
• NHS England funding available to PCNs for hypertension case finding / diagnosis

Cholesterol

• New guidance on cholesterol management – the role of statins / Ezetemibe / PCSK9i / Inclisiran
• Searches available to find patients at risk of CVD and those patients whose cholesterol is not optimised
• NHS England funding available to PCNs for cholesterol / statin management

Diabetes

• A brief overview of the role of SGLT2i in the management of CVD risk in patients with diabetes and planned future education sessions