Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the take-up of free health checks by over-40s in each local authority area in each of the last four years for which data is available.

Data on NHS Health Check participation, by local authority, is published every three months and goes back to April 2013. The data is available from the following link:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/nhs-health-check-detailed

Between April 2018 and September 2022, over 8.6 million people in England were offered an NHS Health Check, with participation at over 40% of offers. Delivery of the programme was largely suspended between April 2020 and February 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in line with national guidance from NHS England. Data from September 2022 indicates recovery of the service is underway, with activity at 81% of pre-pandemic levels.

The Department is taking forward a programme of work to modernise the NHS Health Check, including the development of a national digital NHS Health Check to complement the face to face service and enable people to self-check at home.