Welcome to the GP Healthcare Alliance’s Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Assessment and Management course.

Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours

This course is designed for clinical staff members who will be working within General Practice, in the UK. This should take up to 3 hours to complete, based on your prior knowledge and experience and is a basic course for Primary Care. The aim of this training is for the learner to be able to understand what Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is, be able to risk assess and manage a patient’s primary medication within General Practice. You will always adhere to your workplace protocols and policies; gain an understanding of what you will need to do and why, maintaining professional practices throughout. All guidelines provided in the Lessons within this course are correct and current at the time of writing. You will need to ensure that you always follow any updated guidelines and work protocols within your practice and area.

It would be beneficial for you to have a note pad at the ready, but please do not worry if you have not, there are downloadable files for your reference! Some of the  examples provided have not got audio support as they will be included in the PDF at the end of each lesson, which can be increased in size within this format, if needed for eye comfort. 

Some information may be repeated within the course, as a reminder for you and also to ensure optimum learning can be achieved.

Please be aware that during this course the ‘National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’ (NICE) is referred to regularly as NICE.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain knowledge about the types of Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and how these occur.

• Understand everyday risk factors that can cause CVD.  

• Gain knowledge of what Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis are, and become aware of the symptoms that a patient may have to indicate these.

• Learn about strategies to aid prevention of CVD and also Secondary prevention.

• Develop an understanding of the relationship between cholesterol and CVD.

• Understand the significance of gaining a QRISK score for your patients.

• To take away and explore additional information that you may wish to investigate online, these are correct at the time of writing this course and are included within the downloadable content.

There is an end of course Assessment.

This is where you will be able to show off all the information that you have learnt, there is quite a lot, so making notes would benefit you for a quick recap! You will need a pass rate of 80% or more to pass and be able to obtain your certificate, which can be downloaded and printed.

Please be aware that all content within this course is copyright protected

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Please scroll down each screen and click ‘continue’ where indicated, also be aware of the arrows or the relevant numbers on the bottom of the screen to ‘click on’ as needed.

Where possible we have provided audio support to utilise if preferred and/or required but please be aware that there are examples for you to peruse also.

When you are ready to begin, click the “Start Course” button.