High Blood Pressure: policy context

Most policy in the NHS in Scotland refers to diseases and services. There is no specific policy on high blood pressure, but there is a strategy on coronary heart disease and stroke (see the Better Heart Disease and Stroke Care Action Plan, 2009).

There is specific guidance on the clinical management of high blood pressure in Scotland in the form of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) guideline 97- Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovacular disease.

High Blood Pressure also features in the Quality and Outcome Framework for the new General Medical Services contract (see Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)).

High Blood Pressure is also mentioned in the Scottish Executive document Delivering for Health