Remote patient monitoring enhances symptom management for palpitations

Project outline: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent GPs are using FibriCheck to remotely monitor patients with palpitations. This region-wide initiative, involving 146 GP practices, aims to reduce unnecessary appointments and diagnostic referrals, improving resource management and wait times for patients. With FibriCheck, patients can now check their heart rhythm whenever they want and whenever experiencing symptoms. As palpitations often only appear sporadically, remote heart rhythm monitoring over a longer period of time can enable timely triage and reduce repeat visits. This approach is expected to enhance health outcomes and bring significant savings to the NHS, while also aiding in the detection of atrial fibrillation and supporting annual primary care health checks.

“This is amazing for patient care and a massive cost saving to the system as these people could have had a stroke or heart attack in the future. These are less potentially disabled individuals, who would not have been able to live healthier lives, be in work, and required care. Fibricheck has allowed us to be more responsive to patient care needs and helped with capacity in frontline general practice.”

Regional clinical director Dr Jack Aw, a senior GP partner of the Loomer Medical Group (the leading practice whose results launched this work to regional scale), and clinical advisor of this pathway

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