Health: Screening
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of (a) women and (b) men eligible for NHS health checks have had those checks in the last year, broken down by parliamentary constituency in the East of England.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The Department does not hold data on NHS Health Checks broken down by sex or by parliamentary constituencies. Local authorities, who are responsible for commissioning the NHS Health Check, may hold this information locally.
The NHS Health Check should be offered once every five years to eligible people, which means if everyone expected was offered a check and completed one, we would expect 20% of the total eligible population to receive a check each year.
The following table shows the proportion of the total five-year eligible population who had an NHS Health Check in each local authority in the East of England in 2024-2025:
Area | Percentage of the total five-year eligible population who received an NHS Health Check in the year 2024/25 |
England | 9.0 |
East of England | 9.4 |
Cambridgeshire | 13.2 |
Luton | 11.9 |
Essex | 11.4 |
Norfolk | 11.0 |
Southend-on-Sea | 10.5 |
Thurrock | 8.8 |
Peterborough | 7.8 |
Hertfordshire | 7.2 |
Suffolk | 6.0 |
Central Bedfordshire | 5.4 |
Bedford | 5.3 |
To improve access to the programme we are piloting an online NHS Health Check so that people can undertake a check at a time and place convenient to them.
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