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You are said to have a:
- High risk - if your score is 20% or more. This is a 2 in 10 chance or more of developing a cardiovascular disease within the next 10 years.
- Moderate risk - if your score is 10-20%. This is between a 1 in 10 and 2 in 10 chance.
- Low risk – if your score is less than 10%. This is a less than 1 in 10 chance.
What treatments are available to reduce the risk?
If you are at moderate or high risk of developing a cardiovascular disease then treatment with medicines is usually advised, along with advice to tackle any lifestyle issues.
This usually means:
- Treatment with medication, usually with a statin medicine to lower your cholesterol level. No matter what your current cholesterol level, treatment with medicines is advised. In terms of targets, your level of cholesterol has to be viewed as part of your overall cardiovascular health risk. The cardiovascular health risk from any given level of cholesterol can vary, depending on the level of your HDL cholesterol, and on other health risk factors that you may have.
- Treatment with medication to lower blood pressure if it is high. This is even if your blood pressure is just mildly high.
For more information, click here for a patient decision aid on taking statins.
Where relevant, to encourage you even more to tackle lifestyle risk factors. This means to:
- Stop smoking if you smoke.
- Eat a healthy diet - including keeping your salt intake to under 5g a day.
- Keep your weight and waist in check.
- Take regular physical activity.
- Cut back if you drink a lot of alcohol.
The British Heart Foundation provide some really useful information about keeping a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise, reducing salt intake < 5g per day, reducing alcohol, maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding smoking. This advice is important whatever your CVD risk is. This information is accessed via BHF website to www.bhf.org.uk and linking to Risk Factors from the home page.
At present NICE advises that treatment in the form of medication called Statins should be considered if your Qrisk2 is > 10 %, as well as addressing any lifestyle issues. Information regarding this medication can be obtained on the BHF website. If your QRISK2 remains elevated after lifestyle changes are introduced we will discuss the need for medication. If you would like to discuss medication in more detail, please speak to our pharmacists, Richard Laybourn or Alia Awni, or make a telephone appointment with a doctor for a prescription.
Information re modifying all risk factors and support offered locally is available through One You Leeds at www.OneYouLeeds.co.uk. You may also find www.patient.info helpful.
Help with stopping smoking can be accessed via phoning 0800 169 4219
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Hello to all Crossley Street Patients and welcome to the Patient Participation Group web page
Our purpose is to try to keep Crossley Street patients up to date with the work of the group through this web page and by our Newsletter.
Please do read our PPG Newsletter as it will keep you up to date with the latest Surgery News.
Read the latest PPG Newsletter
About the Patient Participation Group
Crossley Street Patient Participation Group (PPG) is a partnership between patients of Crossley Street Surgery and the doctors, medical workers and administrative staff who look after our wellbeing.
The aim of the group is to encourage a positive working relationship between patients and surgery staff to ensure that the best use is made of resources, such as our clinics, and doctor specialities, also that organisation and policies reflect patients’ views.
The practice has produced a Patients' Charter, which sets out the rights of our patients and their corresponding responsibilities. View and print out a copy of the practice Patients' Charter.
If you are interested in joining the group, – we particularly need some younger members – would like to contribute any ideas, or have any other queries you would like to contact the group about, please send us a message on our Patient Participation Group Contact Form. (We cannot deal with personal complaints, as there is a separate protocol for this).
PPG Meetings
We meet in the surgery on the third Thursday of each month with the exception of August and December.
We send all patients and staff our best wishes and send all those working at our surgery our grateful thanks for their efforts to help keep us all safe and well.
To read the minutes from the PPG meetings, click below.
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care.data is a new information system, which will make increased use of information from your medical records with the intention of improving health services.
This information along with your postcode and NHS number but not your name, will be sent to a secure system where it can be linked with other health information. This allows those planning NHS services or carrying out medical research to use information from different parts of the NHS in a way which does not identify you.
You have a choice. If you are happy for your information to be used in this way you do not have to do anything. If you have any concerns or wish to prevent this from happening, please speak to practice staff or ask at reception for a copy of the leaflet How Information About You Helps Us To Provide Better Care. This can be downloaded here .
For further information please go to www.england.nhs.uk/caredata
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The practice offers a free text messaging service that will make it easier for you, as a patient, and your GP Surgery to keep in touch. Users of this service will receive a text message reminder the day before your GP or nurse appointment and we may also text you about other health care matters, such as test results, reminding you to make an appointment, or periodically collecting important data to update your medical record.
PLEASE ENSURE THAT WE HAVE YOUR UP-TO-DATE MOBILE PHONE NUMBER.
We respect the fact that not everyone wishes to use this service. If you do not wish to receive text messages, please contact us.
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