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, ...

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 ...

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 NHS Health Check program is estimated to prevent around 300 premature deaths and results in more people living free of cardiovascular disease in England each year, according to a new study.

A new digital health check delivering an additional one million checks in the first 4 years is to be rolled out in England in Spring 2024. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) underlined ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...