Annual Reviews for Long Term Health Conditions

If you have had an invite to book in for your annual review appointments, please call the surgery or come to the practice to arrange these. When you do so, please let the member of staff you are speaking with know that this is the reason you are calling or have come in. This will allow us to make sure the right appointments are booked for you and hopefully save you having to come back more than is needed.

You will be invited for annual review appointments if you have one or more of the following conditions:

  • Asthma
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease (COPD)
  • Dementia
  • Diabetes
  • Heart Failure
  • Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
  • Ischaemic Heart Disease
  • Learning Disability
  • Previous stroke or mini-stroke (also known as a transient ischaemic attack, TIA)
  • Psychotic illness
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Schizophrenia

We will usually invite you for a review around the month of your birthday. Please do contact the practice if you would like to be invited at another time of the year. We are aware that we are a bit out of schedule following COVID, so please bear with us as we try to catch up even if that means your review comes a little earlier or later than expected this year.

Some people will need an initial appointment with one of Health Care Assistants or Nurses, for example to take blood tests or check your weight. You will then be booked in for a review appointment at least 1 week later with one of our team to go through these results and discuss how you are getting on. If you do not need any initial monitoring checks, you will be booked directly in with one of our team to discuss your chronic condition.

If you have asthma or COPD we may send you a questionnaire via SMS or email for you to complete prior to your appointment.

If you have other medical issues that you wish to discuss that are not related to your long term health conditions, it may be best to book a further follow up appointment as the review appointment is set up to review your long term health conditions.