NHS Health Check

Health Options® CS featured in the PHE/OHID-commissioned ORCHA report on NHS Health Check technologies: an outline of the assessment process involved

Introduction In December 2020, Public Health England (PHE) – now the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) – put out an Open Call for “Digital Health Products and Services that are capable of delivering or supporting the delivery of the key elements of the current NHS Health Check”. To complete this work, PHE engaged […]

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Mental health and the NHS Health Check: A case study assessing the national CVD prevention programme’s ability to identify people with depression and anxiety – the view from Newcastle

Introduction and overview Over recent years, general awareness of mental health has undergone a radical change. Whilst there are complex drivers underpinning this social movement, the continuing need for us to go further and faster is stark: according to the World Health Organisation, mental health conditions now cause 1 in 5 years lived with disability

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NHS Health Check Programme Government Review: Tracing the Developments to Date

In January 2019, the NHS released its new Long Term Plan (LTP) in which it identified cardiovascular disease (CVD) as being the biggest single area that the NHS can save lives over the coming decade. According to the plan, up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases could be saved over the coming 10

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VIDEO: Understanding and operating QRISK2 to communicate CVD risk (part 2)

VIDEO: Understanding and using QRISK2 to communicate CVD risk (part 2) Building on our previous blog post, this content completes our 2-part series on training and cardiovascular risk. Watch the video to see Health Diagnostics’ Training & Development Lead, Geoff Curtis, give a brief 10 minute training session on QRISK2. The effective communication of CVD

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Top training tips for using QRISK2 to communicate cardiovascular risk (part 1)

Top training tips for using QRISK2 to communicate cardiovascular risk Having trained over 4,000 individuals to deliver motivational health checks, we thought that we’d use this latest blog post to address some common questions that we receive. In our experience, amongst the most frequently misunderstood aspects of health check delivery relate to the QRISK2 calculator

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Our ‘TOP picks’ for Public Health England’s 2019 CVD Prevention Conference in Manchester

Our ‘TOP picks’ for Public Health England’s 2019 CVD Prevention Conference in Manchester The current status of CVD in the UK One of the positive public health stories to emerge over the past few years has been the fact that cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in the UK is declining. Research suggests that total CVD mortality

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