| Heading: |
Health Services: Older People |
| Question ID: |
1760543 |
| UIN: |
27819 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5326 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Edward Morello
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Edward Morello
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people over 65 can access free health checks every five years. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
The NHS Health Check programme, England’s cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme, aims to prevent CVD in people aged 40 to 74 years old, and is offered every five years. During 2023/24, over 1.4 million people received an NHS Health Check, and ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |