Background The NHS Health Check Programme was launched in England in 2009, offering a vascular risk assessment to people aged 40–74 years without established disease. Socio-economic deprivation is ...

In a recent study published in the journal BMC Medicine, researchers compared the rate of new diagnoses among United Kingdom Biobank (UKBB) individuals who received the National Health Service (NHS) ...

The government is planning to roll out an NHS Digital Health Check service from spring 2024, in a bid to free up GP appointments and reduce NHS waiting times. The check-up is a digital version of the ...

Attending a health check as part of the England National Health Services "Health Check" programme is associated with increased risk management interventions and decreased risk factors for ...

The UK government has announced plans to replace standard health checks with “personalised” prevention driven by data. According to health secretary Matt Hancock, the idea is to make traditional ...

The NHS Health Check is associated with a short-term increase in diagnoses of hypertension, high cholesterol, and chronic kidney disease, but reduced longer-term multimorbidity and mortality, ...

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for a wider roll out of NHS Health Checks in order to save 650 lives a year in England. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for a wider roll out of NHS ...

Everyone aged 40 has been urged to "come forward" by the NHS - as free health MOTs and checks are rolled out. The NHS Health ...

Millions of women in England could benefit as NHS health checks will, for the first time, include questions about menopause. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said women have been “suffering in silence ...

What are NHS Health Checks? While you might think NHS Health Checks are just regular GP appointments, they are actually free assessments of the heart and blood vessels. These are currently aimed at ...

The NHS England provided a free health check up to the population over forty years of age and has noted that more than half of them did not take the health check-ups that could detect and treat ...