Blood Pressure Awareness Campaign 2012

The 2012 Blood Pressure Awareness day will take place on Saturday 12 May at New World and PAK'nSAVE supermarkets and other venues throughout New Zealand. The aim of the campaign is to provide information about high blood pressure and other risk factors for stroke, and to offer free blood pressure checks. The checks will be available between 10am and 2pm at most venues and may operate longer at some.

This year, as last, the blood pressure checks in supermarkets  will be carried out by trained St John volunteers assisted by Rotary.

Around 150 supermarkets will take place this year. Check the full list to find your nearest participating store.

Over 120 sites participated in 2011. You can read the results of last year's survey here.

For more information about what blood pressure is, what causes high blood pressure, and ways to reduce it and keep healthy download our leaflet About Blood Pressure (pdf 2Mb).

View our Down with Blood Pressure Campaign video below.

Monitoring Your Own Blood Pressure

Increasingly New Zealanders are monitoring their own blood pressure using battery operated digital monitors. The Stroke Foundation has prepared a short video demonstrating the correct use of two blood pressure monitors.