Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of people have attended an NHS Health Check in (a) Gillingham and Rainham constituency, (b) Medway, (c) Kent, (d) the South East and (e) England in the latest period for which figures are available.

Local authorities are responsible for commissioning the NHS Health Check programme. Data is collected quarterly on offers and uptake and returned to Public Health England (PHE). PHE is not able to provide data on the Gillingham and Rainham constituency or the South East as these are not defined areas for data purposes. Data for Medway, Kent and the South of England are shown below (Kent, Surrey and Sussex, Thames Valley, Wessex, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire) together with England data.

For Medway, the eligible population of 84,700, from which 24,613 people (29.1%) have been offered an NHS Health Check in the five quarters since the programme moved to local authorities in April 2013. 10,460 people (12.3%) have received an NHS Health Check in that time. This represents an uptake rate of 42.5%.

For Kent, the eligible population of 450,487, from which 132,057 people (29.3%) have been offered an NHS Health Check in the five quarters since the programme moved to local authorities in April 2013. 42,998 people (9.5%) have received an NHS Health Check in that time. This represents an uptake rate of 32.6%.

For South England, which includes Kent, Surrey and Sussex, Thames Valley, Wessex, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, the eligible population of 4,194,522, from which 889,806 people (21.2%) have been offered an NHS Health Check in the five quarters since the programme moved to local authorities in April 2013. 360,863 people (8.6%) have received an NHS Health Check in that time. This represents an uptake rate of 40.6%.

For England, the eligible population of 15,449,660, from which 3,570,090 people (23.1%) have been offered an NHS Health Check in the five quarters since the programme moved to local authorities in April 2013. 1,715,419 people (11.1%) have received an NHS Health Check in that time. This represents an uptake rate of 48%.