Harrow Council

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The purpose of the data is: to be able to fulfil our statutory obligations to report on activity data for the NHS Health Checks programme as well as make payments to GP practices under this enhanced services programme

We know from feedback from around 100 patients who attended for an NHS Health Check just how much they appreciate this offer. We also know from both local and national studies that the NHS Health Check programme is an effective tool at identifying patients at risk and at reducing their risks. The national 2021 review found, for example, that patients were less likely access health services in the five years after their NHS Health Check compared to patients who had not had an NHS Health Check. Locally we found that in the five years between 2017 and 2022 out of c.15,000 NHS Health Checks these were the numbers of patients found with certain conditions / prescribed certain medications in the 12 months after the check. Results post NHS H/C Number of patients Diabetic or pre-diabetic 2,648 Prescribed lipid lowering medications 592 Coded as hypertensive 346 Moderate, severe or very severely reduced kidney function 183 Coded as A-Fib, Paroxysmal A-Fib or Flutter 6 Using the data we were also able to demonstrate to more sceptical GPs that up to 50% of patients who were found to have blood sugar results in the pre-diabetic range were not previously known to the practice. This data was key to getting some practices on board. Patients have previously reached out to the Commissioner to complain that their practice was not offering NHS Health Checks. Any data (activity or outcomes) that enables us to run this programme more effectively is of benefit to patients.

16/02/2023

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