Please use this sheet when submitting home blood pressure readings to the practice, this allows the team to calculate and record your readings accurately.  Ensure that form is filled in with 7 consecutive days of readings including dates.

Before taking a reading ensure that you are rested and have taken no exercise in the last 30 minutes.

1. Sit in a chair comfortably upright with your arm supported.
2. Put the cuff on your upper arm (5cm above your elbow) the cuff shoudl be roughly at the level of your heart.
3. Press on on/start button on the BP monitor and take two readings at least 1 minute apart.
4. Repeat for 7 days. If you have borrowed a monitor from the practice please return it.