Volume 15, Number 5, September-October 2008

10 Steps Before you refer for: Hypertension
Terry McCormack, Francesco P Cappuccio

The majority of patients with hypertension are treated in primary care and well controlled. Typically, a practice will achieve about 80% control as judged against the Quality Outcome Framework (QOF). The QOF only requires a practice to reach a target of 70%. A practice will need to control the blood pressure of about 18% of their patients and therefore about 3.5% of the practice population will not be controlled. Too many to refer to secondary care and therefore the practice needs a strategy to try and improve control in-house and to identify those in greatest need of referral.

Br J Cardiol 2008;15:254.

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