Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the differential presentation of heart attacks in women and men is covered in the NHS Health Check.

As the NHS Health Check is England’s cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme, information and advice on the presentation of heart attacks is out of scope for the service. During a check, a CVD risk calculator, QRISK, is used to establish an individual’s chance of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years. The calculation uses sex as a weighted risk factor.