These currently aim to notify people if they are at increased risk for certain conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, ...

The NHS Health Check program, designed to prevent serious health issues such as heart disease and diabetes, is under ...

NHS health checks are not regular appointments and aim to notify people if they are at risk of certain conditions ...

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, ...

Before Christmas, the Department for Health and Social Care revealed that women across England would shortly have menopause incorporated into routine NHS appointments for the first time. The ...

GPs could carry out more NHS Health Checks programme but are being limited by caps imposed by local authorities.

You can also get screening for bowel cancer every two years if you’re aged 75 or over, but you need to call the bowel cancer screening helpline on 0800 707 6060 and ask for the test, according to the ...

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 check is supposed to be offered to people every five years between the ages of 40 and 74 if they do not have any other ...

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 ...

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 ...