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Chronic Disease Checks
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Long-term illnesses are managed by the whole health
care team - including GPs, nursing staff and healthcare assistants. We encourage our patients to take an active role in helping to manage their own conditions, but it is helpful to come for a review once a year as a minimum. Most chronic illness is looked after by our nursing team. Some medications or conditions require yearly blood tests - it is helpful if you arrange to have these done before your review, to assist the GP or nurse in monitoring your progress. If you are on regular medications it is often necessary to have a check up before we can safely continue to prescribe your medications. The following conditions require checks:
If you have several chronic diseases many of the checks for one of your problems will apply to all of them. We are trying to incorporate annual checks for our patients with several conditions so that you do not have to keep coming up to the Surgery. We are hoping that this will be an 'annual' check around your birthday. Over the next year this hopefully will come into practice. To get the timings right you may be asked to have your annual check for one of your problems earlier than usual. |