{"id":3694,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/ambulatorybloodpressuremonitoring\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:21:13","slug":"ambulatorybloodpressuremonitoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/hypertensionandlipidservices\/ambulatorybloodpressuremonitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Services<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Western General Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Metabolic Unit, Anne Ferguson Building<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tel: 01315372473<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Outpatient department 2 (OPD 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tel: 01312421453<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>St John&#8217;s Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ECG department<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tel: 01506523851<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Referral Guidelines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who to refer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring service<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To confirm the diagnosis of hypertension if clinic blood pressure is &gt;140\/90mmHg<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assessment of possible &#8220;white coat&#8221; hypertension<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Borderline hypertension<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assessment of treatment efficacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-urgent consultant-led email advice for patients with hypertension and hyperlipidaemia. Turnaround time of 2-4 days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to refer :<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>U<\/strong><strong>se Gateway system to choose the required service and location:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Western General Hospital<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>St John\u2019s Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p>More information on Lipid and&nbsp;Hypertension services is available at the&nbsp;University of Edinburgh&nbsp;site&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bloodpressureclinic.ed.ac.uk\/home-blood-pressure-monitoring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Home blood pressure monitoring | Lothian Hypertension and Lipid clinics<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodpressureclinic.ed.ac.uk\/measuring-blood-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Measuring blood pressure | Lothian Hypertension and Lipid clinics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Services Western General Hospital Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh St John&rsquo;s Hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4029,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"class_list":["post-3694","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-ambulatorybloodpressuremonitoring"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/hypertensionandlipidservices\/ambulatorybloodpressuremonitoring\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Services Western General Hospital Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh St John&rsquo;s Hospital","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27360,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3694\/revisions\/27360"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}