NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service

The NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service supports risk identification and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

This service will:

identify people over the age of 40 who have previously not been diagnosed with hypertension (high blood pressure), and to refer those with suspected hypertension for appropriate management.
promote healthy behaviours to service users.
undertake ad hoc clinic and ambulatory blood pressure measurements at the request of general practice.

A community pharmacist will opportunistically measure the blood pressure of consenting adults who come into the pharmacy, by offering anyone a free blood pressure check who:

is over the age of 40;
has not previously been identified as having hypertension or a related condition; and
has not had their blood pressure measured by a health professional within the previous six months.

Useful Resources

The service specification can be found here.

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