Summary
Professor Ahmet Fuat, North East and North Cumbria Cardiac Network Heart Failure Lead, shares how one tool is helping reduce the current pressures and deliver better outcomes for patients. NT-proBNP testing – a NICE recommended diagnostic tool – is being used to rule out heart failure in primary care.
In the North East and North Cumbria, patients must have an NT-proBNP test to be referred for an echocardiogram. This mandated testing helps them to streamline the diagnosis journey for heart failure patients by confirming or ruling out heart failure at the earliest possible opportunity, and reducing unnecessary referrals for echos. For patients, this saves time and distress, and for GPs and Nurse Practitioners, which reduces the number of repeat visits these patients often need to make.
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