Louisa McLachlan
Clinical Lead for GP Practice, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Cardiovascular Lead for Symphony Healthcare Services NHS
Symphony Healthcare Services (Somerset Foundation NHS Trust)
BSc (hons), PG Cert Stroke, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Lead for GP Practice.
With a background in cardiology and coronary care nursing from qualification in 2003.
Working across secondary care and with the East Anglian Cardiac Network, to develop the initial Suffolk heart failure service in 2005, leading as a heart failure nurse specialist and service developer to implement the then National Service Framework: Coronary Heart Disease quality standards. Moving to Somerset in 2008 to further develop Advanced Medical Nurse practitioner roles in Primary care, taking up a post in The Royal United Hospitals Trust as a Medical Nurse Practitioner Stroke Nurse Specialist.
Supporting member and contributor to the stroke group, to the former Global Comparators programme at Dr Foster - an international hospital collaborative which ran from 2011 to 2017.
In 2018, I made the move into Primary Care and GP Practice, with a focus on cardiovascular disease prevention. My days of receiving increasing blue light calls in A&E to many preventable strokes, due to CVD, AF and uncontrolled and undiagnosed hypertension, supported my drive to contribute further to CVD prevention. In particular, hypertension, the cornerstone and causation for the majority of cardiovascular disease syndromes.
BP@Home Trailblazer Lead and implementation lead, Symphony Healthcare Services NHS, Somerset, and Supporter to Somerset CCG BP@Home implementations 2020-2022.
Member of the NHSE South West Hypertension Leads group, now CVD Prevention Workstream, Cardiac NHS England, South West.
Rural Practice Network (Somerset East Primary Care Network) Steering group member and CVD Lead.
