Health Matters – Using NHS Health Checks to optimise CVD care – Your questions answered – UK Health Security Agency

We hope our latest edition of Health Matters – on the subject of “Using NHS Health Checks to optimise CVD care” – will help you and other professionals by compiling key facts, figures and evidence of effective interventions.

The NHS Health Check programme provides a crucial means of delivering prevention-focused brief intervention to over 15 million people in England. Research shows that there is better access to lifestyle and clinical management among people that have a check.

There is also evidence that the NHS Health Check is being equitably accessed by certain high risk populations, such as those living in our most deprived…