Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)

People with heart disease require extra care to prevent more cardiac events, illness and death.
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Heart disease, and specifically ischaemic (or coronary artery) disease, is an important and common cause of death and disability in Australia. If you are known to have CHD, it is vital that your cholesterol level is kept as low as possible and often well below normal.

Despite your best efforts with diet and exercise, studies have shown that taking cholesterol lowering medications (“statins”) can save lives and prevent further infarcts (“heart attacks”).

Another medication that will prevent clots in the arteries around the heart are anti-platelet medications and aspirin. That is why we often prescribe these medications to you, and is why we are actively measure and try to improve the number of active patients (patients who have been to our practice three times or more in two years) with heart disease and who are prescribed these medications. We believe that reasonable goal is that at least 90% of our patients with CHD should be prescribed these medications.

Please speak to you GP or nurse if you have any questions about these medications or whether you should be taking them.

CHD Patients on Antiplatelet

CHD Patients on Statin

Quality Improvement at HFGP

QI Dashboard

This page displays a summary of the measures in our quality improvement efforts. Please refer to the specific sections for more detail. We prefer to use “run charts” to display this information, as it is the best way to display change over time and to best identify efforts that [...]

Prevention

Preventive medicine is the practice of promoting preventive health care to improve patient well-being. The goal is to ultimately prevent disease, disability, and death. Click on the graphs to enlarge them. Cervical Screening Cervical screening (previously known as PAP smears) is one of the most [...]

Vaccinations

Vaccines are as important to your overall health as diet and exercise. When you skip vaccines, you leave yourself vulnerable to illness. Click on the graphs to enlarge them. Childhood Vaccinations Childhood vaccinations are a crucial measure in preventing debilitating and potentially life threatening infections. [...]

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ADDRESS

Hills Family General Practice
Shop 10/6 Victoria Avenue
Castle Hill NSW 2154

Phone: 02 88500488

INFORMATION

ADDITIONAL SERVICES AVAILABLE AT HFGP

  • Shared antenatal care with Westmead & Blacktown Public Hospitals
  • In-house podiatry with Matthew Roumanus
  • Psychologist support available through our partners at Project Wellbeing
  • Childhood, adult & travel vaccinations
  • Skin checks including liquid nitrogen freezing for sun spots and warts
  • Comprehensive chronic disease management
  • Diabetes education with our skilled nurses
  • Minor surgery: suturing lacerations, removal of skin lesions
  • Clinical pharmacist in-house medication reviews and education

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