Our Screenings
Taking care of your heart health starts with understanding your personal risk factors and supporting you to make positive changes. That's where our screening programme comes in!
Designed with your well-being in mind, our comprehensive screening looks at various risk factors, including:
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your lifestyle and medical history – the nurse will discuss how these may contribute to your cardiovascular risk and identify ways to help reduce them.
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an electrocardiogram (ECG) – which looks at the rate and rhythm of your heart.
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blood pressure – having a healthy blood pressure is important and we don’t know if we have high blood pressure if we don’t have it checked.
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height, weight and body composition – having a healthy weight is important but we are really concerned with what you are made up of! Your total weight isn’t always an indication of health.
We also take a finger prick blood sample to check your cholesterol and blood glucose levels.
In just 30 minutes, we’ll assess your risk and provide you with personalised feedback on how to improve your diet and lifestyle. Our Medical Director reviews any changes in ECGs and we send your report to your doctor. If we spot anything out of the ordinary, we’ll advise you to follow up with your GP.
Each year, we conduct hundreds of free blood pressure for Islanders at public events. Besides offering these vital checks, we hope to encourage more people to join our full health screening program.
Why Should I Have a Screening?
Many of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease are within our control to change, helping reduce our likelihood of prematurely developing cardiovascular disease.
Cardiovascular disease is an umbrella term for all diseases of the heart and circulation. It includes everything from conditions that are inherited or that a person is born with, to those that develop later, such as coronary heart disease, stroke and vascular dementia.
- Coronary Heart Disease is one of the UK’s leading causes of death and the most common cause of premature death.
- It is the leading cause of death worldwide.
- It is responsible for around 68,000 deaths in the UK each year, an average of 190 people each day, or one death around every eight minutes.
- In the UK, one in eight men (the biggest male killer) and one in 14 women die from coronary heart disease.
It kills more than twice as many women in the UK as breast cancer. (British Heart Foundation, 2024)
26% of deaths in Guernsey between 2019-2022 were due to diseases of the circulatory system of which 15% were preventable. (States of Guernsey - 116th Medical Officer of Health Report 2019-2022).
Although these statistics sound terrible, you can reduce your risk factors and we’re here to help you. Knowing your numbers gives you the information you need to choose how to adjust your lifestyle to reduce the likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease.
