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Know Your Numbers! Week 2025: A Nation Comes Together to Check Blood Pressure
28 October 2025
This year’s Know Your Numbers! Week (8-14 September), the UK’s biggest free blood pressure testing and awareness campaign, saw events taking place across the country - from community pharmacies and GP surgeries to workplaces and high streets.
Welcome to the Autumn Newsletter by Phil Pyatt, CEO of Blood Pressure UK
28 October 2025
It has been an eventful and poignant few weeks for all of us at Blood Pressure UK. We begin with the sad news of the passing of Professor Graham MacGregor, our founder, former Chair, and tireless advocate for public health.
Medtronic - Renal denervation
28 October 2025
For patients with uncontrolled high blood today there is another innovative, safe and effective treatment option that complements standard treatments called renal denervation. (please note this is a sponsored post not written by Blood Pressure UK)