Cholesterol Management for Non-Clinical Roles

This is event is for staff working in Primary Care in Nottingham & Nottinghamshire.

This session will be recorded

Aim of this Event

To improve the knowledge and awareness of cholesterol management of primary care non-clinical roles so that they can help support delivery of lipid management (which is 82 QOF points).

Target Audience

HCAs, GP assistants, social prescribers, care coordinators, health and wellbeing coaches.

Objectives

• Understanding of cholesterol and how it increases CV risk
• Cardiovascular risk and how to reduce it
• What is QRisk, how to calculate it and
• What do the numbers mean
• Undertaking annual lipids bloodCardi tests
• Statins – signposting patients to relevant information
• Understanding of other drugs used to manage cholesterol
• Red flags

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Registration Deadline

• 7th October at 23.30
• Please register with your nhs.net email where possible. If the event is oversubscribed, priority may be given to those who have registered with NHS addresses.
• You will receive a certificate for your attendance. Please allow two weeks for this to be delivered to your inbox. We would advise checking your junk mail before contacting NATH for your certificate at alliance.hub1@nhs.net

The meeting will be broadcast on the MS Teams platform. We recommend participants log on via a computer or laptop for an optimal experience.

This event is planned because respondents to the Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH) Primary Care Training Needs Analysis (TNA) 2024/25 suggested the topic as a local training need.

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