Training
Cardiovascular Disease Risk - Guiding Lipid Management
General Practitioners, Practice Nurses
Greater Eastern Primary Health, in partnership with NPS – Better Choices, Better Health are offering a program on best practice for: Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Guiding lipid management
This program provides a valuable opportunity to discuss up-to-date, independent, practical, evidence-based information on current therapeutic issues with a highly skilled NPS facilitator and other general practitioners.
This program will focus on the:
- The importance of early assessment of absolute cardiovascular risk
- Discussing cardiovascular risk with patients to encourage lifestyle changes
- Factors to consider when prescribing statins, including dose, based on recent trial evidence
- The place of ezetimibe in lipid modifying therapy
- Tips to encourage long term adherence to lifestyle and lipid modifying therapy
What’s in it for me?
- An opportunity to discuss evidence-based information and access key resources
- Time-efficient education with the NPS facilitator for 1 Hour PLUS breakfast/ lunch included
- A Quality Prescribing Initiative (QPI) activity within the Practice Incentives Program and eligible for RACGP QA & CPD and/or ACRRM program points
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