Health Checks

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The NHS Health Check became a statutory public service in 2013 and is now one of the largest public health programmes in the world.

NHS Health Checks are offered every 5 years to all adults aged between 40 and 74 who are not known to have a pre-existing condition and these can be delivered by a number of healthcare professionals including pharmacists.

The programme aims to improve the health and wellbeing of adults by identifying those who may be at increased risk of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes or dementia and to find ways to help them lower their risk and in doing so improve their health outcomes.

This page identifies a wide range of learning opportunities linked to the NHS Health Checks Programme.

As well as clinical information to increase your knowledge on cardiovascular risk there is signposting to the NHS Health Checks Programme website to let you hear from people who have accessed the service. The learning on service delivery not only covers the training requirements of the service but also the practical aspects such as taking a blood pressure and there is also information on how to access your local Health Checks data to see where gaps in provision may be.

The NHS Health Check is a free check-up of your overall health. It can tell you whether you're at higher risk of getting certain health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and stroke. During the check-up you'll discuss how to reduce your risk of these conditions.

NHS Health Check

e-Learning for Healthcare NHS Health Check

Public Health England NHS Health Check competence framework

An online course to build pharmacy teams' understanding of vascular risk, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and risk assessment, and the NHS Health Check programme and its commissioning. It includes communications with patients about their modifiable risk factors, and embedding clinical governance into your service.

Learning Outcomes:

• define the term cardiovascular risk and discuss which vascular diseases are included in the NHS health check programme
• describe how the NHS health check programme fits into current health policy, how it is commissioned and some of the practical aspects of providing a pharmacy-based service
• assess an individual’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) using appropriate evidence-based tools
• explain management options for modifiable risk factors following an NHS health check
• manage patients identified as having low, medium or high risk
• identify situations where referral to another practitioner is appropriate following the NHS health check
• develop strategies for communicating with patients who are at risk of CVD.

This e-assessment is linked with the CPPE Vascular risk and the NHS Health Check programme and assesses you on the learning outcomes within that programme.

Why should I do this assessment?

This e-assessment completes the learning you began with the CPPE Vascular risk and the NHS Health Check programme. Access and successful completion will contribute to your own personal development plan, be recorded in your My CPPE record and will enable you to complete a CPD entry on the learning. It may also provide evidence for achieving competencies in the different competency frameworks that apply across your career. If you are working towards completing a Declaration of Competence for a pharmacy service, successful completion of this assessment will provide evidence of your learning.

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Explore NHS Health Check data

To access this learning you will need to navigate to: Acute medicine (ACUMEN) then ACUMEN knowledge then select Renal.

NHS Health Check training and development tools