Westminster has the highest number of rough sleepers (2,442), followed by Lambeth, Camden, Southwark, Tower Hamlets and City of London, new figures show.
Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney additionally targeted high-risk people.
13 14 We describe implementation of the NHS Health Check programme in Newham, Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).
In Tower Hamlets, and City and Hackney, the implementation was not complete in all practices until 2010.
Therefore, in Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney, patients at highest risk were selected first for invitation whereas little or no stratification took place in Newham.
As people at highest CVD risk tended to be selected first in Tower Hamlets, and City and Hackney, there were relatively more attendees at high CVD risk in earlier years.
The study was set in the three geographically contiguous east London Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) of Newham, Tower Hamlets and City & Hackney, with a combined GP registered population of 829,710 in mid 2008.
http://blizard.qmul.ac.uk/ceg-resource-library.html CEG also organised prior estimates of CVD risk by using QRisk2 in all eligible patients in each practice in Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney, as described below.
QRisk2 in Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney was estimated for the entire eligible population in the first year of the programme and practices were encouraged to maintain this.
In Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney in 2009, CEG estimated prior CVD risk in every eligible patient based on data in their medical record so that those at highest risk could be called first.
The study was set in the three geographically contiguous east London primary care trusts (PCTs) of Newham, Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney, with a combined general practitioner (GP -registered population of 930 079 in April 2012.
