Virtual lipid lowering management
Overview
Organisation: Chiddingfold Surgery
Organisation type: GP practice
Ever-increasing workloads across the healthcare system means that novel methods are needed to address time constraints for both healthcare professionals and patients. So, in 2023 our surgery developed an educational pack consisting of a cholesterol counselling video and comprehensive lipid-lowering therapy information and sent it to patients by text message. The educational pack included:
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the patient's cholesterol results
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the patient's QRISK score and its implications
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what statins are, how they work and possible side effects
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information on ezetimibe.
We identified patients who were eligible for statins from the blood results in their electronic patient record on EMIS. We sent these patients the educational pack and asked them to respond by text message and choose to either have medicine or make lifestyle changes. The aim was to remove the need for routine consultations while ensuring informed decision making.
Upon completion we audited the identified 148 patients over a 15-month period.
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