Guidance

NHS Health Check implementation review and action plan

The NHS Health Check programme aims to reduce avoidable deaths and disability, and tackle health inequalities in England.

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Our priorities 2013 to 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.

Published 21 July 2013