This session will cover:

• Why focus on blood pressure?
• Identification of high-priority patients for BP management 
  • Understanding priority groups in UCLP searches
• Reasons to encourage BP measurements at home 
  • Advantages for patients
  • Advantages for practice teams
• How to onboard patients to blood pressure at home
  • Which blood pressure machines are safe to use
  • Which cuff size for which patient
  • Pitfalls to avoid (e.g. postural hypotension) 
  • Training patients to take their own blood pressure and pulse 
  • How often to submit blood pressure readings to practices
  • Resources to support patients 
• Self-management advice for patients and how to record this 
  • Alcohol / smoking / exercise / salt and diet 
• UCLP protocols to support this work
• The BP@home templates and how to use them to support your work
• Collecting patient results, what they mean and how to respond 
  • Ways to collect results
  • Supporting protocols for responses to patients

For more information, please contact Camden Training Hub: training@communitymatters.co.uk