Health written question – answered at on 23 November 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health checks for those aged between 40 and 74 years were carried out by general practitioners in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008.
The NHS Health Check programme is a systematic programme that assesses all those eligible between the ages of 40 and 74 for their risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease. The aim is to identify people's risk of these diseases earlier and support them to reduce their risk through lifestyle changes, such as smoking cessation or weight management programme, or through clinical management such as prescribing statins.
Primary care trusts began phased implementation of the NHS Health Check programme in April 2009. General practitioners were not, therefore, carrying out NHS health checks before then. Prior to this, some primary care trusts did have similar programmes in place that general practitioners were involved in. However, we do not collect information centrally about these.
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