Offering free heart rate monitoring checks report

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Successful outreach sessions offering free Body Mass Index (BMI) checks led Healthwatch Kirklees to work with Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network to develop the idea of taking out mobile heart rate monitors to offer free screening to people.

The main aim of the outreach sessions was to encourage people to talk to Healthwatch staff about their experience of health and social care services and take out heart rate monitors to help detect Atrial Fibrillation (AF).

Background:

• Kirklees has a predicted population with AF of 10,219 people (National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network 2017).

• The number of people on the AF registers at GPs in Kirklees is 7351 (Y&H AHSN AF dashboard Jan 2018).

• Estimated that 2868 people in Kirklees have AF but unknown to the local health service.

• AF increases with age and is commonly associated with heart disease, high blood pressure, COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), previous stroke or TIA (transient ischaemic attack) diabetes and dementia like illnesses.

• Across this population, it is estimated that 5% of people with AF will have a stroke each year; 143 strokes predicted for 2018/19.

• AF related stroke has a tendency to have poorer outcome than other strokes with an increased risk of death or permanent severe disability often requiring continuing nursing care.

• For every 75 people with AF that are found and treated, 2 strokes a year will be prevented.

Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network supplied Healthwatch Kirklees with:

• heart rate monitors with some monitors having the option of measuring blood pressure too.

• leaflets to give out to people to explain the test result and what they should do if it’s abnormal.

Training for staff and volunteers provided by British Heart Foundation.

Healthwatch Kirklees will:

• keep an anonymous record of the number of tests completed

• record the number of people with AF detected

• signpost anyone with an abnormal result to their GP.

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Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network
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