Long Term Condition Reviews and Monitoring Blood Tests

Patients that have one of the following conditions and take regular medications will be invited into the surgery every year for an annual review of their health and medications.
• Asthma
• Copd
• Cardiovascular Disease including Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, High Cholesterol
• Diabetes
• Dementia
• Mental Health
• Learning Disabilities
• Pre-Diabetes

An email invite containing a booking link will be sent the month before a patient’s birthday unless they were born January to March. Patients born in these months may be invited earlier to ensure we have time to offer everyone an appointment.
Patients that do not have access to email will be sent a letter or contacted by phone to book an appointment.

Certain long-term condition reviews may require a blood test, early morning urine sample or a diary of home blood pressure readings.
Some patients may not have a long-term condition but are taking medications that needs monitoring each year to ensure they are still taking the correct dose. Invites for blood appointments will also be sent via email, letter or patients will be contacted by the recall team.
It is extremely important that you book your blood test or review and attend the appointment. Patients that do not attend will have their medications amended to weekly prescriptions or stopped until they have been seen or reviewed. This is because is may no longer be safe for the doctor to prescribe medication until they have your results.

If you have a long-term condition and have not received an invite, please contact the surgery as soon as possible and request to speak to the recalls team.