Guidance

NHS Health Check implementation review and action plan

• From: Public Health England
• Part of: Cancer research and treatment, Harmful drinking, Smoking, and Obesity and healthy eating
• Published: 21 July 2013

The NHS Health Check programme offers a fantastic opportunity to reduce avoidable deaths and disability, and tackle health inequalities in England.

Documents

NHS Health Check implementation review and action plan: summary

PDF, 113KB, 7 pages

NHS Health Check: our approach to the evidence

PDF, 331KB, 6 pages

NHS Health Check implementation review and action plan

PDF, 1.09MB, 35 pages

Details

Our priorities 2013/2014 identifies support for the successful implementation and scale-up of the NHS Health Check programme by local authorities as one of the small number of high impact actions for Public Health England, in support of our goal to reduce preventable deaths.

The NHS Health Check implementation review and action plan sets out key issues and a ten point plan to support the programme.

Published with the implementation review and plan is a paper on the evidence behind the checks, produced in conjunction with the Local Government Association, NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Document information

Published: 21 July 2013

From: Public Health England

Part of: Cancer research and treatment Harmful drinking Smoking Obesity and healthy eating