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Translating Innovation into Practice:The Cardiology Unmet Needs Project
Professor Stuart Pringle and Alison HumeCo-Clinical Leads for the Cardiology Unmet Needs Project
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Is there evidence of greater need in deprived communities?
• Yes
What impact does this have on health status and outcome?
• Poorer outcomes• Higher morbidity • Reduced survival.
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CABG and angioplasty operations: all ages: rate per 100,000
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158164
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0 50 100 150 200
DD1 3
DD4 0
DD4 6
DD3 0
DD1 4
DD5 2
DD2 4
DD4 7
DD5 3
DD2 2
DD1 2
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Inequality (based on 2001 ISD data)
76
140
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Intervention Control
CABG and Angioplasty rates per 100,000
(Average of deprived intervention group compared to average of affluent control group)
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Aim of the project:
1. To improve access to cardiology
2. To deliver services in deprived communities
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Modelling and re-modelling of clinical activity
1. Delivery of Specialist Cardiology Clinic (including investigation) in a community venue or the clinical mobile unit
2. Identification of potential ‘patients’ from opportunistic cardiology assessment at local events (e.g. local gala days, bingo, shopping centres, the mosque)
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Deprived Communities
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Example of venues:The Community Heart Clinic
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The Clinical Mobile Unit
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Cardiology clinic in Mark Henderson Centre
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Local Gala days
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Engaging with Ethnic Minority Groups
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Radio Ramadhan 107.5
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Lochee Baptist Church
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Results
• A total of 1781 people have engaged with clinical project activity
• 1632 have self presented for an opportunistic cardiology assessment (Specialist nurse led)
• 161 have had a specialist clinical consultation (Cardiologist led)
• 91 people have had a heart failure clinical review
• 17 people have had a heart failure telephone clinical review
10% of the above are of South Asian ethnicity
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Success of engagement with people living in the deprived communities
• Areas with the highest deprivation in Tayside have been targeted for clinical activity
• By delivering services in the deprived areas the majority of people who have engaged are from the poorest areas of Tayside
• By taking clinical services to places of worship, engagement with the ethnic groups has been particularly successful
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Breakdown by deprivation category
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%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7Deprivation category
Area of residence ofpeople who haveengaged with projectclinical activity
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Gender
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assessment clinicalreview
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telephonereview
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The Specialist Cardiology Clinic
161 people have had a clinical consultation
• 73 of these had a diagnosis of CHD• 82 had no known CHD but described significant
symptoms • 6 people believed they had CHD but this diagnosis
was not confirmed following specialist consultation
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Investigations as a result of specialist cardiology consultation145
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number of patients
ECG ECHO ETT ANGIO TETSCAN
Some people included in these figures are awaiting Some people included in these figures are awaiting further tests and investigationfurther tests and investigation
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Medication management following specialist cardiology consultation
Of the 161 people who were seen by the cardiologist, 77 (48%) had a recommendation for medication management to optimise their treatment
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What have we learned so far?
• Feasible• Acceptable – patient and HCP• Opportunistic assessments are popular• Clinical Diagnosis• Interventions – may be quite low tech e.g. up-titrating or
optimising medication• Engagement / re-engagement• Valuable• Cost-effective?• Educational
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