Cholesterol: Screening
(asked on 24th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients can access cholesterol checks (a) during and (b) after the covid-19 outbreak.
This question was answered on 7th July 2020
Cholesterol is tested as part of the NHS Health Check programme and will be available to eligible people once service delivery resumes.
In addition to the NHS Health Check programme, those patients with medical conditions that require monitoring of cholesterol will have this done in the usual way through primary medical care services.