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Community pharmacies in England have carried out 75,051 blood pressure checks within the seven months since the launch of the hypertension case-finding service, it has been revealed.
England’s chief pharmaceutical officer David Webb and Shahed Ahmad, NHS national clinical director for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, shared the figure in a blog commemorating World Hypertension Day, published today (May 17).
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