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<p>The Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care, published on 9 May 2023, describes an ambition to make it easier for patients, where it is clinically safe, to monitor certain long-term conditions at home and easier for practices to review patients that are self-monitoring. Home monitoring can substantially improve health outcomes and reduce the need for regular and urgent appointments. A good example is blood pressure control through home monitoring, reducing heart attacks and strokes. To support this we are providing funding for digital tools so patients can send readings to their practice, where staff can review and add them to their clinical record.</p><p>Already more than 30,000 people self-refer each month, and in the 2023/24 operational planning guidance NHS England asks systems to expand this for certain carefully considered community-based services from September 2023. These include selected community musculoskeletal services, audiology for older people including hearing aid provision, weight management services, community podiatry, and wheelchair and community equipment services.</p> |