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Toolkit contents
A list of all pages in the Toolkit
Home
| About the Toolkit |
| DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES |
Conducting Heart Health Checks
A team approach
| Team roles and responsibilities |
| Challenges and solutions |
Recalling eligible patients
| Getting your data ready |
| Identifying eligible patients |
| Receptionist's guide to the Heart Health Check |
| Patient invitation templates |
Engaging your patients
Quality improvement
| MODEL FOR IMPROVEMENT AND PDSA CYCLE |
| QI incentives and the Heart Health Check |
| Promoting the Heart Health Check in your practice (checklist) |
| Building a case for the Heart Health Check |
Risk factor management
| PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGICAL LIPID MANAGEMENT |
| LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT |
Toolkit in practice (examples from primary care colleagues)
Together, we can change the future of heart disease
Together, we can change the future of heart disease
Together, we can change the future of heart disease
The power of your ongoing support can help save lives and keep more families together. Help us continue to fund promising heart research projects by donating today. ...
Time to book a Heart Health Check?
Time to book a Heart Health Check?
Time to book a Heart Health Check?
If you're 45 and over, or 30 and over if you're of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, you should book your Heart Health Check today...
Heart Health Check Toolkit
Heart Health Check Toolkit
Health Professional Tools
Health Professional Tools
Health Professional Tools
Guidelines, publications and support for the health professional community....
Do you have a Heart Story to share?
Do you have a Heart Story to share?
Do you have a Heart Story to share?
Sharing your story could help another Australian just like you to overcome their heart challenges...
Pre-hospital point-of-care troponin and risk assessment in chest pain patients
Pre-hospital point-of-care troponin and risk assessment in chest pain patients
Associate Professor Dion Stub, Institution: Monash University...
What's your BMI?
What's your BMI?
What's your BMI?
Are you within a healthy weight range for your height?...
WEBINAR | The future of CVD risk assessment
WEBINAR | The future of CVD risk assessment
WEBINAR | The future of CVD risk assessment
Should population-based CVD risk assessment models make way for individualised risk prediction techniques?...
Automated Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD or AICD)
Automated Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD or AICD)
This is a device inserted into your chest to return abnormal heart rhythms to normal using electrical impulses. ...
Mexican vegetarian pizza
Mexican vegetarian pizza
Mexican vegetarian pizza
One pan honey mustard chicken
One pan honey mustard chicken
One pan honey mustard chicken
Sit less, move more
Sit less, move more
Sit less, move more
You may be surprised to know that on average, adults sit for nine hours a day....
Our supporters
Our supporters
Our supporters
Working together to save Australian hearts...
What is a healthy body weight?
What is a healthy body weight?
What is a healthy body weight?
Find out what a healthy body weight is and the steps you can take to achieve it. ...
Long-term recovery after a heart attack
Long-term recovery after a heart attack
Long-term recovery after a heart attack
Information to help you adjust to what could be the 'new normal'...
Q&A with Dr Lewan Parker
Q&A with Dr Lewan Parker
Q&A with Dr Lewan Parker
Identifying microvascular dysfunction as a novel mechanism of poor health in heart failure patients....
Finding her voice: Sophie Nester’s heart story
Finding her voice: Sophie Nester’s heart story
Sophie Nester was born with a heart condition and a form of spina bifida. She had three open heart surgeries before she turned five. Now 26, Sophie is a disability support worker in Bendigo, Victoria....
Using a patient's genetic code to identify those likely to benefit from preventive statin therapy
Using a patient's genetic code to identify those likely to benefit from preventive statin therapy
Dr Adam Nelson, Institution: Monash University...
Support us and help save Australian hearts
Support us and help save Australian hearts
Join the fight against Australia’s biggest killer by supporting the Heart Foundation. ...
Kylie defied the heart attack stereotypes
Kylie defied the heart attack stereotypes
Kylie defied the heart attack stereotypes
Cardiac rehabilitation was a turning point for Kylie and essential to her heart failure recovery....
Our Annual Reports
Our Annual Reports
Our Annual Reports
Discover our Annual reports from 2013 onwards. ...
Cholesterol and heart disease (animation)
Cholesterol and heart disease (animation)
Patient-friendly animation to explain high cholesterol ...
Get started with more physical activity
Get started with more physical activity
Get started with more physical activity
Finding time for physical activity is one of the best things you can do for your heart...
Your heart medicines
Your heart medicines
Your heart medicines
Information about commonly prescribed heart medicines. ...
Q&A with Dr Jennifer Browne
Q&A with Dr Jennifer Browne
Food and Nutrition Policy for First Nations peoples – translating evidence into action...
Hazelnut maple granola clusters
Hazelnut maple granola clusters
Hazelnut maple granola clusters
Breakfast recipes
Breakfast recipes
Breakfast recipes
Heart healthy breakfasts to start your day right...
Nutrition after a heart attack
Nutrition after a heart attack
Nutrition after a heart attack
Discover key information on heart-healthy eating and drinking....
WEBINAR | Heart Health Checks: the critical role of the practice nurse
WEBINAR | Heart Health Checks: the critical role of the practice nurse
WEBINAR | Heart Health Checks: the critical role of the practice nurse
This webinar discusses the role of practice nurses in conducting heart health checks...
Lamb recipes
Lamb recipes
Lamb recipes
Find heart healthy lamb recipes....