Health: Screening

(asked on 27th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Clinical Commissioning Groups have added pulse checking to GP- or pharmacy-enhanced services for people aged over 65.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 30th March 2017

This information is not held by the Department or NHS England, as general practice and pharmacy contracts do not mandate pulse checks as part of the existing enhanced services for people over 65.

In England, however, all local authorities are required to offer the NHS Health Check programme, with the large majority commissioning general practice to provide them on their behalf. Between 2014 and 2018, over 15 million people aged 40 – 74 are, have been or will be eligible for an NHS Health Check. The programme’s best practice guidance recommends that a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading and that those individuals who are found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred for further investigation.

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