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) ...

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 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 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 ...

The NHS has urged people to get a simple blood pressure check ...

Towards the end of 2025, the government announced a plan to include questions about menopause in primary care NHS health ...

The Department for Health and Social Care announced a major change last year that women throughout England would soon have menopause included in routine NHS appointments for the first time. The ...

With World Cancer Day approaching on 4 February, understanding the diverse national cancer screening programmes, from mammograms to at-home faecal immunochemical tests, is crucial. Eligibility for ...