ESC hypertension guidelines 2024: Guideline in a Nutshell

The latest guideline from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) sets a new, lower threshold for starting patients on medication to control blood pressure, and opportunistic screening for hypertension from childhood.
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Protecting patients, protecting the health service: seasonal flu update

With more than ever to do, and less time to do it in, this year’s seasonal flu vaccine campaign is going to be busier than ever – but it is critical that practices aim to boost uptake to protect individuals and reduce winter pressures on the NHS
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• Salt reduction offers better BP control
• Campaign to boost flu jab uptake in light of latest mortality data
• Many general practices facing financial ruin
• Digital badge scheme risks losing advanced practitioners
• Lower threshold for BP-lowering treatment
• Nursing student numbers crash
• Obesity treatments restricted by cash poor local services
• Majority of inhalers for COPD ‘misused’
• Programme detects high rates of undiagnosed COPD
• Audit reveals gaps in respiratory care

Tailoring therapy to the individual patient

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Diagnosis of heart failure

Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalisations in the over 65s and has a high prevalence in patients attending for regular review of long term illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD). General practice nurses play a vital role in the management of patients with long term conditions, and are therefore in an ideal position to identify the early signs and symptoms of heart failure in patients that are most at risk of developing this condition.

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• Travel health services in general practice: Important information for all general practice nurses in England
• Practice nurse bite-sized learning:Understanding heart failure management
• Protecting patients, protecting the health service: seasonal flu update
• New joint asthma guideline: implications for children and young people
• The case for general practice nurse-led group clinics
• Coaching – not just for Olympians
• Travel health update

23 Jul 2024

Guidelines in a nutshell: NICE – draft guidance on asthma Practice Nurse bite-sized learning: Understanding chronic kidney disease Metabolic liver disease – what you need to know and do General practice: the seeds of discontent Beyond the numbers:personalising care for people with long term conditions Travel health update The why and how of foot assessments in diabetes

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25 May 2024

Going on the attack to eradicate asthma attacks forever Lessons in asthma Improving the management of respiratory conditions in a primary school setting Setting up a spirometry hub Guidelines in a Nutshell: GINA 2024 How to improve long-term outcomes for people with asthma

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20 Mar 2024

COPD: the GOLD 2024 report Reducing cardiovascular risk: latest recommendations Measles – catching your death Bite-sized learning:Understanding Familial Hypercholesterolemia Allergic disease:diagnosis and management for general practice Optimising the nutritional status of patients with COPD

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1 Feb 2024

What links Cardiovascular-Renal-Metabolic conditions? Identifying and managing patients with bronchiectasis Practice Nurse Bite-Sized Learning: Understanding hypertriglyceridemia Travel health update Telephone triage in primary care New lipid targets at odds with international standards Independent Nurse – how does that work? Urgent need to put primary care at core of NHS

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