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Cardiovascular

Keep the heart healthy.

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Where do broken hearts go?

With services like blood pressure screening and personalised OTC and lifestyle advice, Training Matters explores how pharmacy teams are key to supporting heart health in their communities.

12 Mar 2025

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Home screening CVD scheme in Cumbria shows promising results

A DHSC-backed home screening scheme achieving high uptake.

17 Feb 2025

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Hypertension identification and management

Welcome to our CPD module series for community pharmacy technicians.

14 Feb 2025

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First prescriptions: lipid management

This CPD module covers the management of cardiovascular risk through lipid (cholesterol) lowering medication.

29 Jul 2024

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First prescriptions for heart failure

This module covers medicines used in the management of heart failure.

13 Sep 2023

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More than half the UK population are destined to end up with a heart or circulatory condition, but earlier intervention from community pharmacy teams could change that.

14 Jun 2023

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Hypertension case-finding in pharmacy

Last year pharmacies in England embarked on hypertension case-finding for their patients.1 Take-up of the NHS Community Pharmacy Blood Pressure Check Service has been rapid.

15 Aug 2022

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New hope for the most common form of heart failure

Despite advances in diagnosis and pharmacotherapy, heart failure remains, all too often, a death sentence.

22 Jun 2022

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The mental and physical benefits of an active lifestyle

Despite a surge in fitness fanatics during the pandemic, new research suggests the population’s activity levels are lower than ever before.

14 May 2022

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Hypertension: part four

Understanding NICE pharmacological treatment guidelines and options for the management of hypertension.

25 Mar 2022

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Hypertension: part two

The steps community pharmacy professionals need to take to look after patients with hypertension.

20 Jan 2022

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Reducing cardiovascular risk

This module provides an overview of the current NICE guidelines for lipid modification in reducing cardiovascular risk.

11 Sep 2020

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Tackling women's heart health

Women are twice as likely to die of a heart attack than men, but pharmacy teams can raise awareness of this and help to ensure women get support.

10 Aug 2020

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COPD: part two

Part two of this CPPE module looks at the different guidelines available on COPD.

12 Jun 2020

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