Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
The practice has BP machines for home loan to patients when requested by a clinician or a nurse. These machines are loaned for a period of 7-days.
For advice on action you can take to help lower your blood pressure please visit Blood Pressure UK website
If you have been asked by a clinician at the practice to monitor your BP readings at home, you can use the British Hypertension Society's document to record these readings.
You should monitor and record your blood pressure at home for 7 consecutive days (unless you have been advised otherwise). On each day, monitor your blood pressure on two occasions - in the morning (between 6am and 12noon) and again in the evening (between 6pm and midnight) WHILST SITTING. On each occasion take a minimum of two readings, leaving at least a minute between each - if these two readings are very different, take 2 or 3 further readings. Please record all of your readings.
At the end of the 7-days you should return the monitor (if you have a loan of a practice monitor) and your BP readings to the practice. This should be done as soon as possible as we would want to assess your readings and we may also have a waiting list of patients requiring the loan of a monitor.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT READINGS TAKEN USING A WRIST MONITOR.
British Hypertension Society's document for recording home BP readings
If you have been asked by a clinician or nurse to take home BP readings, please use this document to record the readings and once finished hand the readings into the surgery.for
NHS Scotland Patient BP Pathway Shared Management Plan
The attached document provides information on BP readings and actions to take