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Cholestrol Management Partnership

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Sharron1

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Good evening to everyone.

Has this happened to anyone else?
I had my Cholestrol check weeks ago, and althhough TC was 6.3 all the other markers were in the green normal zone. I didn't hear anything from the surgery and as far as I was concerned that was that.

Today, I received a text reminding me of my cholestrol management phone appointment next Saturday. I knew nothing about this, I phoned the surgery and was told that my details had been passed on to this Cholestrol Management Team ( not based in the surgery) and I should have been contacted . I said I was busy but would make another appointment later on.

Has anyone heard of this arrangement? Last year I spoke with the GP and later on the Clinical Pharmacolgist.The receptionist at the surgery had very little info to give me. The cynic in me wondered if my dedails had been passed on to a private company 'Statins r us' or something like that, which is why the receptionist couldn't tell me anything.
 
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How odd @Sharron1 - not something I’ve ever heard of.

Your surgery do seem a little chaotic at times! 😱
 
I've not heard of this. One thing that I've noticed is that, with some of the past changes in the way that GPs work, the boundaries between NHS and private become a bit blurred. For example, a few years ago I had a colonoscopy arranged by my hospital. It was not done at an NHS hospital but at a "private" provider. This private provider was run out of and by an NHS medical practice. My GP surgery now uses a dietitian but the two dietitians they use are not part of the practice. So, I am unable to use the surgery's online booking system and have to phone up. All that the receptionist was able to tell me was that they were used by the surgery and were separate from the practice. It was only after I had a name that I was able to do an online search to establish that the dietitian came from the Community Healthcare Trust. Maybe your situation is similar and the team may even be based in a hospital.
 
Eddy Edson said:
Does this have anything to do with it?

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Thanks, who knows? I will ask at the surgery next week, am more curious than anything else. I live in North London and the two named NHS partnerships are not in my area, however that doesn't mean they don't work together now.
 
JimG said:
I've not heard of this. One thing that I've noticed is that, with some of the past changes in the way that GPs work, the boundaries between NHS and private become a bit blurred. For example, a few years ago I had a colonoscopy arranged by my hospital. It was not done at an NHS hospital but at a "private" provider. This private provider was run out of and by an NHS medical practice. My GP surgery now uses a dietitian but the two dietitians they use are not part of the practice. So, I am unable to use the surgery's online booking system and have to phone up. All that the receptionist was able to tell me was that they were used by the surgery and were separate from the practice. It was only after I had a name that I was able to do an online search to establish that the dietitian came from the Community Healthcare Trust. Maybe your situation is similar and the team may even be based in a hospital.
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Thank you, that may well be the case and this Cholestrol team thing is separate from the surgery.The receptionist was unable to give me any name
 
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