Blogs

October 2021 is national cholesterol month. High cholesterol causes cardiovascular disease and accounts for a third of all heart attacks. Cholesterol has been a 'cinderella' condition since cholesterol indicators were largely removed from GP contract in 2014. The NHS Long Term Plan has put cholesterol back in the spotlight as one of the high-risk cardiovascular conditions requiring improved detection and management.

As a GP working over the course of the pandemic across multiple GP sites, but predominantly in Enfield, I have been quite overwhelmed by the rise in the incidence of patients presenting with worsening of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma and COPD.

Daphne Amevenu is Deputy Programme Director for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and proactive care at UCLPartners. Here, Daphne reflects on the importance of involving patients and the public in healthcare design and explains the approach she has taken to ensure patients are influencing the way the UCLPartners’ proactive care programme develops.

A major concern for general practice is how to continue with the essential covid response while providing proactive care to patients who are at highest risk of deterioration.

Our Managing Director Prof Mike Roberts provides an update on how we are supporting the response to COVID-19.

Helen Williams looks at opportunities for detection and how innovation solutions and technology can help close the gap and maintain patient safety going forward.

The national audit for cardiovascular disease will include six high risk conditions with extracts of routinely recorded general practice data being monitored and managed for reducing impact on patients. By Dr Matt Kearney and Lorraine Oldridge.

UCLPartners Programme Director Dr Matt Kearney looks at the Kings Fund Report on tech innovations transforming the way routine care is delivered during COVID-19 and asks whether this technology can now be harnessed to support the management of long term conditions post-covid.

Dr Matt Kearney, GP and Programme Director at UCLPartners, looks at transforming our ways of working in primary care and taking a different approach to help prevent cardiovascular disease.

The rising incidence of cardiovascular disease means its early detection and improved prevention should be the primary care sector’s top priority argues Dr Matt Kearney.