Physical Health: A service evaluation of cardiometabolic health monitoring in forensic patients diagnosed with severe mental Illness (SMI).

This service evaluation will investigate the current level of cardio-metabolic monitoring of Southwark community forensic patients and evaluate whether this is in keeping with the guidelines defined in the policy. The results will guide future management of these patients with a view to reducing cardiovascular risk. Cardiometabolic health monitoring involves monitoring certain risk factors/parameters that tell us how a persons’ heart (cardiac) and metabolism/bodily functions (metabolic) are working. This is relevant as patients with severe mental illness are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular (heart) disease and metabolic syndrome. Community forensic patients are all patients that live in the community who have a previous conviction, (whether it be serious or less serious crime, sexual, etc) and a diagnosis of a severe mental illness. THE QRISK3 is a web calculator which calculates a person’s risk of developing a heart attack or stroke over the next 10 years. It presents the average risk of people with the same risk factors as those entered for that person.