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Hypertension Dashboard
Description
This hypertensive dashboard was created with the input from a range of specialists and managers. It aims to promote cross sector collaborative working. Its key objectives are: To reduce variation in care and improve clinical outcomes for hypertension by adopting consistent quality standards and guidelines, providing training and support to healthcare professionals, sharing knowledge and expertise across the health economy, To increase hypertensive detection and coding through case finding, To improve management of hypertension and associated health outcomes by, Identifying patients with high blood pressure, Keeping Hypertension Register up to date, Optimising blood pressure monitoring and control in those who have hypertension, Proactively monitoring patients for complications of hypertension and end organ damage, Encouraging best practice to reduce the risks associated with hypertension. Please refer to the dashboard user guide - https://www.nwlondonicb.nhs.uk/download_file/view/2518/1927
Results/Insights
Clinical Uses of Hypertension Dashboard: There are a number of scenarios where we envisage that the Hypertension Dashboard may be of use:
- Case finding of Hypertensive patients: • Practices should check whether the prevalence of recorded Hypertension is lower than expected - based on the characteristics of their population • Identify high risk patients by a number of parameters including risk factors, age etc. who have out of date care processes 2.Prioritising patients for review: • The Dashboard allows the clinician to sort patients by a number of parameters including Blood Pressure reading, Coded CKD Stage, Latest eGFR value, Co-Morbidities and prescribed medication.
- Virtual clinics / treatment optimisation • Exception reporting • Poorly controlled / off target patients o The dashboard allows the clinicians to review a list of Hypertensive patients with the following LTC; Heart Failure, CKD, Diabetes, Ischaemic Heart Disease and AF. o The dashboard allows clinicians to see patients with a critical decline in their eGFR within a 12 month period (>25% or >15ml/min)
- Recall for appointments o The medication overview section allows a health professional to see who has had or not had certain prescribed medication in any previous given period.
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Last Updated
17/04/2026
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