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Venous disease fact sheet
By Self Care Forum | 11 June 2021
Overview
This Guidelines for Pharmacy summary of the Self Care Forum fact
sheet on venous disease provides community pharmacy teams with
recommendations for advising patients on managing venous disease,
and includes:
useful facts
what patients can expect to happen
what people can do to help themselves—now and in the future
when to seek medical help (the ‘red flags’)
where to find out more information.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the content of this fact sheet is correct at the time of
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publication, but information and self-care advice may change. The information provided is for
general education only and does not list all the facts, management options, and warning
symptoms. The fact sheet should only be provided in the context of the consultation, where the
healthcare professional will be able to draw attention to particularly relevant information.
Venous disease fact sheet
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Full guideline:
Self Care Forum. Venous disease—looking after your legs. Self Care Forum, 2020. Available
at: selfcareforum.org/fact-sheets
Published date: October 2020.
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