Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to raise awareness of early onset heart disease.

The NHS Health Check programme aims to prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cases of dementia and kidney disease among healthy adults aged between 40 and 74 years old. It does this through earlier awareness, assessment and management of six of the top risk factors for cardiovascular disease: blood pressure, cholesterol, physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption and body mass index.

This includes the recent Government announcement as part of International Men’s Health Day 2023 to establish a men’s health task force that will look at ways to engage men in their health and increase uptake of the NHS Health Check.