Long term conditions are incredibly important. The whole practice team work together to support you with your long term condition. Our whole team is committed to caring for your long term health conditions.
This involves:
- Inviting you to check up appointments.
- Helping you find the right medication.
- Supporting you to exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet.
- Finding local and national support groups.
- Supporting you with your mental health as you navigate living with a long-term condition.
Because of this wide range of support, you may be contacted by a social prescriber, a member of our patient care co-ordination team, a pharmacist, a doctor, a physician’s associate or a member of our nursing team.
Our invites
We will invite you for regular check-ups depending on your conditions. But if you have any concerns or queries, then do book an appointment at the practice. If you are not sure who might be best placed to answer your query, please do ask a member of our team either via our online query form, or by phoning the practice.
If you have had an invite to book in for your annual review appointment, please use the booking link (if you have received one), call the surgery or come to the practice to arrange these. When you do so, please let the member of staff you are speaking with know that this is the reason you are calling, or have come in. This will allow us to make sure the right appointments are booked for you and hopefully save you having to come back more than is needed.
You will be invited for annual review appointments if you have one or more of the following conditions:
- Asthma
- Bipolar Disorder
- Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease (COPD)
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Heart Failure
- Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
- Ischaemic Heart Disease
- Learning Disability
- Previous stroke or mini-stroke (also known as a transient ischaemic attack, TIA)
- Psychotic illness
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Schizophrenia
We will usually invite you for a review around the month of your birthday (this may be earlier for certain conditions). Please do contact the practice if you would like to be invited at another time of the year. We don’t always have enough capacity to do all the reviews in certain months, so please bear with us if your review comes a little earlier or later than expected.
Some people will need an initial appointment with one of Health Care Assistants or Nurses, for example to take blood tests or check your weight and blood pressure. You will then be booked in for a review appointment at least 1 week later with one of our team to go through these results and discuss how you are getting on. If you do not need any initial monitoring checks, you will be booked directly in with one of our team to discuss your chronic condition.
If you have asthma or COPD we may send you a questionnaire via SMS or email for you to complete prior to your appointment. Please complete this as soon as you can, as it may mean that we can do your review over the phone (if your condition is well-controlled), rather than you having to come to the surgery.
If you have other medical issues that you wish to discuss that are not related to your long term health conditions, it may be best to book a further follow up appointment as the review appointment is set up to review your long term health conditions only.