Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the heart age test on the NHS website.

The Heart Age Test offers advice on lifestyle changes that help reduce people’s risk of heart attack and stroke and which can improve overall health and wellbeing, and has strong clinical and academic support.

As of September 2018, the Heart Age Test had been completed over 1.9 million times. In 2016, a British Medical Journal open paper was published, which analysed the first 500,000 test completions. The paper noted that estimated heart age was higher than chronological age for 79% of users and that demographic and risk factor profiles resembled the population of England.

Public Health England is currently leading an evaluation of the September 2018 Heart Age Test campaign. The evaluation will assess reach and recognition of the campaign as well as the extent to which the campaign acted as a prompt to use the Heart Age Test.