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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 an NHS Health Check appointment - a preventative screening programme offered for free in the UK - is associated with both a decreased risk of dying and a decreased risk of several diseases, ...

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 ...