High blood pressure is a significant risk factor for heart disease and strokes. All of our clinical team are able to check your blood pressure. It is called a ‘silent disease’ as often doesn’t cause symptoms and therefore we look to opportunistically check your blood pressure in clinics, if you don’t have a diagnosis of high blood pressure and see us for another matter.
If you have a diagnosis of high blood pressure, we will inform you when your blood pressure check is due. If you need more regular monitoring we will inform you when your next check is due.
How to check your own blood pressure without a GP appointment:
- With your own home blood pressure monitor. You can find out more about this and how to submit readings to us via Hypertension/Raised BP.
- If you don’t have access to a blood pressure monitor at home, you can use the self-check machine in the surgery between 8 am to 5:30 pm.
- If you have been asked to submit 7 days’ worth of blood pressure readings and you do not have your own blood pressure monitor, we can lend one to you. Please ask about this at reception.