Information Links
- Trending
- GP contract
- Red Flags A-Z
- GP Insight
- GP Wellbeing
Digital NHS Health Checks to be rolled out in England next spring
The government has announced plans to roll out digital NHS Health Checks in England from next spring...
Revised NICE advice on hypertension a 'missed opportunity'
A revised NICE guideline on hypertension could see hundreds of thousands more people offered BP-lowe...
NICE draft guideline halves threshold for prescribing BP-lowering drugs
GPs could offer BP-lowering medication to hundreds of thousands more patients from August after draf...
New report suggests 5.7m UK adults are living with undiagnosed hypertension
Millions of UK adults could be suffering from undiagnosed high blood pressure (BP), increasing the r...
Home-based BP monitoring helps GPs manage hypertension more effectively
Using blood pressure (BP) readings taken by patients at home, as opposed to measurements taken in cl...
Clinical picture: Hypertensive retinopathy
This week is Know Your Numbers! Week, which aims to raise awareness of high blood pressure....
Folic acid cuts stroke risk for patients with high BP by 21%
Folic acid supplements reduce the risk of stroke in people with high blood pressure, a study has fou...
Antihypertensives cut deaths in 'healthy' diabetes patients
GPs should consider prescribing antihypertensives to patients with type 2 diabetes even if their BP ...
Treat sleep apnoea to improve hypertension, suggests study
Using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to treat patients with sleep apnoea could reduce hi...
Patient-led dosing for hypertension improves BP control
Allowing hypertensive patients to monitor and adjust drug doses under a programme devised by their G...
Refine your search
By Area
- « Any By Area
- News (29)
By Therapeutic area
- « Any By Therapeutic area
- CV - Blood pressure (29)
By Topic
- « Any By Topic
- News (29)
- Clinical News (29)
- News (29)