Health Diagnostics’ response to OHID’s NHS Health Check Review
Detailing how Health Diagnostics respond to each of the 6 recommendations within the NHS Health Check Review
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Cardiovascular disease
Supporting NHS Health Check services during the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
This blog looks at some of what we’re doing at Health Diagnostics to support our colleagues and partners during this unprecedented time.
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Cardiovascular events calculator: investigating the number of CV events avoided across England
In this first blog of the new decade, we thought we’d take a look back at the past five years of NHS Health Check provision and crunch some numbers regarding the quantity of cardiovascular (CV) events that the Programme has helped us to avoid.
Establishing cardiovascular risk with trans individuals using QRISK2
Intro Having supported England’s NHS Health Check Programme for around a decade, Health Diagnostics’ support teams have been exposed to an unparalleled array of queries from providers and commissioners. One of the more common (as well as more challenging) questions that our teams get asked is “when looking to determine a trans person’s cardiovascular
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Learning from Berkshire’s award-winning NHS Health Check nurses
A service recognised as superior In this month’s blog, we focus in on an award-winning team of nurses working across Berkshire to deliver NHS Health Checks. In recognition of their excellent standards of nursing care, the Royal College of Nurses recently presented the county’s Cardiovascular Health Check Team with the 2016 Bank Nurse Award.
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Men’s health and premature mortality: physical and mental dimensions
Whilst it’s widely acknowledged that women tend to live longer than their male counterparts (latest UK life expectancy data puts the female average at 82.9 years and the male average at 79.3 years), what is less well known are the startling premature mortality figures that are contributing to this gender gap. According to
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