Health Services: Older People
Commons · Question 27819 · Tabled 30 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people over 65 can access free health checks every five years.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 5 Feb 2025
The NHS Health Check programme, England’s cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme, aims to prevent CVD in people aged 40 to 74 years old, and is offered every five years. During 2023/24, over 1.4 million people received an NHS Health Check, and ...