Hypertension Heroes gets a brand new tool!
Hypertension Heroes
is a project, which directly empowers communities to address health inequalities around self-management of hypertension by increasing the knowledge and capacity of community champions. In this recent phase, smoking cessation has been added to the Hypertension Heroes toolkit.
Ruth met with Hypertension Heroes. Here is her story.
She was advised to monitor her blood pressure for a week and then contact her GP with the results.
She told the Hypertension Heroes that she would follow their advice, but that she wasn’t registered with a GP.
The Hypertension Heroes gave Ruth information about how to register with a local surgery. Armed with the right information, and the encouragement to get signed up, Ruth was able to register with the GP.
She took her blood pressure readings to the GP, and they then sent her for further tests.
As a result, Ruth discovered that she may be diabetic and requires medication to manage her blood pressure.
Two weeks on and Ruth is extraordinarily grateful for the advice and support from the Hypertension Heroes.
She told us,
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