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Hypertension service

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Referring via Choose & Book

Use Choose & Book for outpatient appointments:

• Routine referrals
  Patients should always be referred via the Choose & Book system. The consultant will assess each referral beforehand and the patient will be seen first by a specialist nurse, who will ensure that all required investigations are done. Results will  be reviewed by the consultant, who will decide whether the patient needs a follow-up in the outpatient clinic.
• Urgent referrals
  All urgent referrals should now go through Choose & Book, rather than being faxed to the department.

Use Choose & Book for 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring only.

• Routine and follow-up
  Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring requests should always be referred via the Choose & Book system and patients will be seen in the nurse-led clinic and results reported by consultant.
• Urgent referrals
  All urgent referrals should now go through Choose & Book, rather than being faxed to the department.

Request for advice

• By letter to:
  Professor B Casadei
  Department of  Cardiovascular Medicine
  John Radcliffe Hospital
  Headley Way
  Headington
  Oxford OX3 9DU

Common conditions seen by the Hypertension Service

• Refractory / difficult to treat hypertension
• Suspected secondary hypertension
• Re-referral of patients known to the Hypertension Service

Procedures/investigations etc. which may be arranged following referral to the Hypertension Service

• 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor
• Screening for secondary causes of hypertension
• Advice on lifestyle and diet

Cardiological investigations

If a GP wishes to arrange an echocardiography or ECG Holter monitor, this can be done directly via referral to:

• ECG Reception
  Cardiac Department
  John Radcliffe Hospital