Health Services: Screening

(asked on 22nd June 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the review Preventing illness and improving health for all: a review of the NHS Health Check programme and recommendations, published in December 2021, what progress they have made in bringing forward the recommendations for the NHS Health Check contained in that review.


Answered by
Lord Markham Portrait
Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 28th June 2023

Following publication of the 2021 evidence-based review, the Department is taking forward a programme of work to modernise the NHS Health Check and deliver recommendations from the review. So far this has included, investing nearly £17 million for the development of an innovative digital NHS Health Check to bolster current local authority delivery of the programme. The digital health check, will be rolled out from Spring 2024, which will give users choice about where and when to have a check and enable increased overall uptake and improved efficiency of the programme. We are also improving uptake by supporting local authorities with the recovery of the programme following the COVID-19 pandemic by launching a training hub, showcasing innovative local delivery models and facilitating communities of practice, with activity reaching over 91% of pre-pandemic levels at the end of December 2022.

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