NHS Health Check Training for Richmond & Wandsworth
The NHS Long Term Plan identifies cardiovascular disease (CVD) as a clinical priority and the single biggest condition where the NHS can save lives over the next 10 years. Following the disruption caused by COVID-19, we now have much to do to improve the detection and management of atrial fibrillation, blood pressure and cholesterol (ABCs).
NHS Health Checks are a terrific way to help save lives, and training is essential.
Courses are commissioned by Richmond and Wandsworth Council’s Public Health team and are free for practice staff that work in Richmond and Wandsworth. Those with an interest in CVD prevention and the NHS Health Checks programme are encouraged to attend.
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Have you ever wondered why some questions are being asked or how to explain what the results mean?
Join our free, fun and interactive online training to improve your knowledge and understanding of NHS Health Checks. And learn top tips for understanding and communicating cardiovascular risk.
Starting with strengthening their understanding of the need for the programme and health inequalities that exist, this comprehensive session gives attendees the knowledge and understanding to support them in carrying out an NHS Health Check, including the significance of their results and CVD risk, acting on the filters and providing brief advice.
- State why NHS Health Checks are important.
- Identify non-modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
- Identify modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
- Know the NHS Health Check filters
- State how an NHS Health Check should be conducted.
- Identify how an NHS Health Check can assess and interpret the risk of cardiovascular disease.
- State how the risk of cardiovascular disease and opportunities for reducing this risk may best be communicated.
New starters who will work on the programme should complete the full-day training.
- Practice Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- GPs
- Health Care Assistants
- Pharmacists
If your role is not included in the list but you deliver/will be delivering NHS Health Checks, please contact us directly.
We understand that sometimes plans change.
If you need to cancel, please contact us as soon as possible, we can rearrange for you.
Our training is free for you to attend, paid for by your public health commissioner. If you don’t attend the training you have booked, your commissioner is charged.
Your public health commissioner is informed of your registration, attendance or DNA. If you do not attend on the day, your public health commissioner will be charged the full price for your training place.
Certificates of participation and handouts to accompany training, are available to all attendees on submission of evaluation.
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12th June
9.30am – 12.30pm
Networking lunch 12.30pm – 1.15pm
In-Person
York House
TW1 3AA
18th June
9.30am – 12.30pm
Networking lunch 12.30pm – 1.15pm
In-Person
St Peter’s Battersea
SW11 2DE
OVERVIEW
This course is a follow-up to the Understanding NHS Health Checks full study day, a reminder of the NHS Health Check Competency Framework and then focuses on CVD Risk, GPPAQ, Audit C, and Dementia prevention and awareness.
The session will also include data quality – ensuring the template is completed.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- State why NHS Health Checks are important.
- Know the NHS Health Check filters
- State how the risk of cardiovascular disease and opportunities for reducing this risk may best be communicated.
- Appreciate the different risk communication strategies
- Appreciate the complexity of GPPAQ and Audit C
- Know what is needed for Dementia prevention and awareness within a health check
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Practice Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- GPs
- Health Care Assistants
- Pharmacists
If your role is not included in the list but you deliver/will be delivering NHS Health Checks, please contact us directly.
This is a mandatory annual update for all those staff trained to deliver NHS Health Checks and essential to remain up to date with all required competencies for delivery of the NHS Health Check.
Please complete the registration form below
VENUE DETAILS
12th June
York House, Richmond Road,
Twickenham, TW1 3AA
18th June
St Peter’s Church Battersea,
23 Plough Road, SW11 2DE
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Are you wondering what NHS Health Check training covers?
Join Michaela for a 30-minute video overview.
Available to watch on-demand at a time that suits you.
CPD: 30 minutes.
A certificate is available after viewing.
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Continuing Professional Development
Certificates of participation and handouts to accompany training, are available to all attendees on submission of evaluation.
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What Richmond and Wandsworth attendees are saying:


Michaela Nuttall RGN MSc
Director
NHS Health Check Training Lead
Michaela is a Cardiovascular Nurse Specialist, Director at Smart Health Solutions and founder of Learn With Nurses. She is the former Head of CVD Prevention for Public Health England and Clinical Advisor at OHID. She is the Chair of the Heart UK Health Care Committee and a member of the Nurses and AHP & The Guidelines and Information Working Party of the British and Irish Hypertension Society.
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We are a registered Centre for the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), and HEART UK supports our cardiovascular training. The NHS Health Check Competency Framework underpins our training.
We are proud of our strong heritage in supporting the NHS Health Check Programme, especially for training we have been providing since 2008.

