Unfortunately a health check with just total cholesterol and a glucose is not much use and cannot meet the requirements for a CVD risk assessment as recommended in NICE CG181. Once other tests are added the marginal costs will increase rapidly with POCT and cost will be considerably greater.

 

Dermot Neely

 

 

 

Dear All

 

I would love your comments on this recent publication:

 

Point of care testing in primary care

BMJ Open has published research concerning point of care testing (POCT) in primary care.  Does use of point-of-care testing improving cost-effectiveness of the NHS Health Check programme in the primary care setting?  A cost-minimisation analysis found that the total expected cost of using POCT to deliver an NHS Health Check in primary care is lower than the laboratory-led pathway.  It also minimises DNA rates and only requires one visit from the patient.

 

Look forward to your responses

 

Regards

 

Shirley

 

Dr Shirley Spoors

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Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (CLS)

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