Event Details
This course is for Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Nurse Associates and Nurse Associate Trainee’s who are new to the area of NHS Health Checks.
Prerequisites
- Ability to perform venepuncture
- Ability to perform blood pressure (manual and automatic
- Ability to take a weight / height and calculate BMI
The Day will run from 9.30 – 15.30 and include a 1 hour lunch break.
- Understand the NHS Health Check (NHS HC) within the context of National ‘Best Practice’ Guidance.
- Review the 4 key components of the NHS Health Checks within the program standards. How is this structured in practice?
- Outline processes required as part of the ‘initial assessment’ – how can we manage this initial consultation?
- Discuss how we can calculate and communicate level of risk to individual patients.
- Examine lifestyle interventions that are relevant to all levels of calculated risk, and how we can tailor this to patients identified as having risk factors.
- Consider when to signpost for individuals who may be at higher risk of CVD.
- Consider how hypertension, type 2 diabetes. Atrial fibrillation, hypercholesterolaemia and cirrhosis may be risk assessed during an NHS HC.
- Look at the NHS HC Competency Framework and how we can use this going back into practice.
- Discuss how we can increase uptake for NHS HC’s
