Health Check Assessment. The Health Check assessment is designed to: • Facilitate the early detection of major illnesses and ‘case-find’ adults who have established disease in order they can be offered evidence based care to manage the existing disease • Identify those patients as being at high risk of developing a range of major illnesses, so that they can then be offered interventions in order to prevent or manage their disease onset that will maximise their quality of life and minimise their incidence of the disease. • Identify patients who are in need of lifestyle and/or primary prevention interventions. • Raise awareness of dementia in people aged over 65. Providers will invite and undertake a Health Check assessment on the eligible population using the Health Check assessment • Each Health Checks assessment shall be evidenced by a completed Health Checks assessment template or GP Clinical System Template • Read codes for Health Checks offered and completed and for all other significant findings as identified in the assessment document should be added to the patient’s records. • Providers must comply with data and verification requests from the Council or third party acting on the Council’s behalf (e.g. St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust’s Health Informatics Service) in a timely manner and comply with requests for data to inform the NHS Health Checks Returns. Verification requests from the Council will take the form of a quality assurance visit to the practice. During the assessment, which is expected to take approximately 20 minutes, the following information should be collected and recorded: • Age • Gender • Smoking status • Level of physical activity • Family history (CVD, diabetes) • Ethnicity • Height, weight (BMI) • Total cholesterol testing (using near patient testing were possible) • Total cholesterol/HDL Ratio (using near patient testing were possible) • Impaired Glucose Regulation status • Blood pressure measurement (those with a raised BP and or BMI of 25 or more also require a HbA1c. Patients with raised BP also require a serum creatinine and electrolytes • AUDIT-C Alcohol assessment • Dementia awareness raising (a leaflet and training tool are available of the NHS Health Check website - xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx/national_resources/dementia_resources • Peak flow assessment • Information, advice and signposting on brief intervention • Referral as appropriate The presence of other conditions that increase CVD risk should also be recorded during the consultation i....
