{"id":127923,"date":"2025-09-10T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127923\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:10:07","slug":"cornish-blood-pressure-check-campaign-aims-to-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127923\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish blood pressure check campaign aims to save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Collier, head of clinical quality at NHS Cornwall, had a stroke at the age of 42 and said ignoring reminders to get her blood pressure checked was a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 53-year-old, who is also a former nurse, said: &#8220;Obviously if I&#8217;d been along to my doctors and had my check done really, really easily, I could have been started on medication and the stroke could have been prevented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gareth Walsh, a public health practitioner at Cornwall Council, said there were lots of ways of getting a blood pressure check-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said along with a GP checking it, people could also go along to a pharmacy to get a reading or use a scheme at Cornish libraries to borrow a blood pressure monitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important to get to know your numbers and to take readings regularly,&#8221; Mr Walsh said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s the takeaway message from this so you&#8217;re used to your numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Collier, head of clinical quality at NHS Cornwall, had a stroke at the age of 42 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-127923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}