Waiting Room Blood Pressure Machine
You are welcome to come and use our new BP machine in the waiting area if you are asked to get a BP reading. The machine has full instructions on the wall and gives you a print out. We would be grateful if you could add your name and date of birth to the print out and give it to reception.
ABPM Machines
If you have a single raised blood pressure, you may be asked to have an ambulatory set of readings done. We will book you an appointment to have this fitted and removed. The results will go to the GP to analyse then we will contact you. This gives us an average of many readings and is useful in the diagnosis of hypertension.
Home BP Monitoring
In order to monitor your BP, or sometimes as pat of diagnosis, we may ask you to take readings at home to monitor your BP, either a one off, or more usefully twice daily BP for 4-7 days so we can average the result. You can buy your own machine or we do have machines to lend out if needed. We usually will contact you if we want you to do this as part of your care.