What is Hypertension (high blood pressure)?
Your heart is pumping blood to your brain and the rest of your body and the ‘blood pressure’ is the force placed on the walls of your arteries. If the pressure is consistently too high, it puts a strain on your heart and could lead to strokes, heart attacks and kidney damage.
The 1st step to reducing your risk is to check your blood pressure regularly — so that your doctor can give you the best advice and an up-to-date and personalised treatment plan.
What is Hypertension Plus?
Hypertension plus is a platform created by OMRON, which is being rolled out across the Farnborough GP practices enabling patients who have been diagnosed with Hypertension and that have been identified and are eligible for the free service to monitor their condition remotely.
If you are eligible for the service, you will receive an invite to join the programme from your GP. There is no need to contact your practice.
To find out more about Hypertension plus please visit the link below – Hypertension Plus (omron-healthcare.co.uk)
Or watch a brief video on how Hypertension Plus works via the links below –
https://youtu.be/rTd0TVPD6Qk
https://youtu.be/6beMjZsZNYY
https://youtu.be/tjk0muuvUjo
https://youtu.be/bxEUgHOlAWg
Guide to taking blood pressure.pdf
What will you gain from Hypertension Plus?
The programme will be a great way to help you and your doctor keep your blood pressure in a healthy range.
You will also be able to do the follow:
- Share up to date blood pressure readings with your doctor via the app
- Save time with convenient home monitoring instead of having to visit the surgery
- Stay on the right medication plan, agreed by yourself and your doctor
- Make faster progress towards your target blood pressure
- Please note that you will require your own blood pressure monitor
To Register please click here
To download the Hypertension Plus App
Google play CLICK HERE or App Store CLICK HERE
Troubleshooting
When you register via the unique invite link, this can take up to 15 mins whilst it accesses your medical records from our clinical system.
If it looks like your phone has frozen and it is stuck on the loading screen, please leave it to finish.
If you try to attempt a 2nd registration, this can prevent the initial registration from completing. In this case you would need to contact us so we can manually register you on the system. download link.
Once you have registered via the unique invite link or have been registered manually, the first time access the application, you will need to register again with your first name, surname and email address we have registered on our clinical system.
This is because the 1st registration is linking your details but does not create an account on the application.
