NHS Choices has gone to town on the NHS Health Check project. New web pages aim to encourage people to use this "sophisticated check of your heart health." Through blood pressure, cholesterol, and body mass index being "properly checked," they say that strokes, diabetes, heart disease, ...
in January 2008, the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, announced "everyone in England will have access to the right preventative health check-up . . . there will soon be check-ups on offer to monitor for heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and kidney disease." He also pledged a national ...
wholegrains, nuts and seeds are needed to counteract the harmful free radicals which the body naturally produces during all of the millions of metabolic reactions and processes that occur in every cell of our bodies. Excessive free radicals contribute to chronic diseases including cancer, heart disea...
- are aged over 18 with certain long-term health conditions (e.g. diabetes, asthma, COPD, a heart condition, kidney or liver disease, or a neurological condition such as Parkinson's disease) - are a frontline worker in a social care setting without an employer-led occupational health scheme...
- are aged over 18 with certain long-term health conditions (e.g. diabetes, asthma, COPD, a heart condition, kidney or liver disease, or a neurological condition such as Parkinson's disease) - are a frontline worker in a social care setting without an employer-led occupational health scheme...
The deal was made to help DeepMind develop an app called Streams with the aim of monitoring patients with kidney disease. Streams would alert the right clinician when a patient’s condition deteriorates. But New Scientist revealed that DeepMind would be getting access to other health information ...
"This has never been done before. So it's a start. The fact that the NHS has organized this tells you a lot about the progressive nature. It really is an impressive organization to have this vision that I'm just helping to pull together." ...
The NHS made a bigger push than ever to encourage people to stop smoking, firstly through the launch of NHS Choices. It was built to offer advice for people to make healthy lifestyle decisions, including tips on how to quit smoking. ...
become infected by patients and vice versa, although they will be less likely to develop serious infections or die. Similarly, patients will be protected, or not, by their own choices about vaccination. If other infection control measures are in place, will vaccination necessarily add very much?
Information about Health Checks, which are provided free of charge to East Riding adults aged 40 to 74 years old who have not previously been diagnosed with a long term condition, such as heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease and high blood pressure. DOI: http://www...