Hypertension: Management in Adults in Primary Care: Pharmacological Update

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This rapid update of the NICE guideline on hypertension in primary care was undertaken because recent large clinical outcome trials had provided new information about the pharmacological treatment of hypertension. The remit was therefore very specific, focusing only on the recommendations on the pharmacological management of hypertension contained in Chapter 1.4 of the original NICE guideline. Guidance on other issues, for example the target value for starting treatment contained in recommendation 1.4.1, was not considered by this review and remains current.

The work was undertaken by the National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions, based at the Royal College of Physicians of London, with two aims: to incorporate new evidence into the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline, and to collaborate with the British Hypertension Society (BHS) to produce new joint advice for primary care prescribers in the NHS.