Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of the eligible population have been offered an appointment under the NHS Health Check Scheme for each year since the scheme began.

Data on NHS Health Check offers has been collected nationally since 2011-12. In 2011-12 and 2012-13 14% and 16.5% of eligible people were offered an NHS Health Check respectively. In 2013/14 the programme became a mandatory service with all local authorities delivering it and 18.4% of the eligible population was offered an NHS Health Check. The data for the programme is published each quarter for the 152 local authorities responsible for providing this service on:

www.healthierlives.phe.org.uk