Curriculum for General Practice - The Royal New Zealand College ...

C Cardiovascular
Context of General Practice
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• understand the demographics of their practice population
to allow appropriate screening, organised or opportunistic,
and awareness of prevalent conditions
• manage the referral and admission pathways and
protocols in their local area to ensure patients receive
secondary care in an efficient and timely manner
• consider what methods would help to reach their practice
population for cardiovascular screening and improved risk
factor modification and disease management
• engage with other health care professionals, providing
both support to reduce the risk of CVD and rehabilitation
following a CV event.
• consider the different members of the primary care
team and how they can each participate fully in
cardiovascular disease prevention, detection and
management in their practice
Management
The GP will demonstrate the ability to:
• set up systems to efficiently identify and contact patients,
and deliver a cardiovascular screening programme from
their practice
• describe the PHO Performance Programme and its
function and relevance to practice
• initiate and maintain systems to collect and record
information identifying patients at increased risk of CVD,
for example smoking, family history, ethnicity,
hypertension, diabetes
• manage practice team organisation and leadership to
effectively deliver a CVD screening programme and risk
modification intervention, and appropriate management
of unstable CVD and effective secondary prevention.
This curriculum statement links with:
• Acute Care - Page 28
• End-of-life Care - Page 55
• Long-term Conditions - Page 85
• Older People - Page 111
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