The Surgery are now offering NHS Health Checks
The NHS Health Check programme aims to improve the health and wellbeing of adults aged 40-74 years through the promotion of early awareness, assessment, and management of the major risk factors for CVD – risk factors that are associated with premature death, disability, and health inequalities in England.
Current regulations state that people aged 40-74 years who do not have any of the following conditions, are eligible for a check:
- coronary heart disease
- chronic kidney disease (CKD), stage 3, 4 or 5
- diabetes
- hypertension
- atrial fibrillation
- transient ischaemic attack
- hypercholesterolemia
- heart failure
- peripheral arterial disease
- stroke
- Patients that are prescribed statins for the purpose of lowering cholesterol
- people who have previously had an NHS Health Check, or any other check undertaken through the health service in England and found to have a 20% or higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease over the next ten years.
We will be contacting eligible patients to make an appointment which will include a blood test and BP appointment with our HCA, pre questionnaire to gather essential information regarding Smoking status etc. You will then a telephone consultation with our Nurse to review your results.
