Local authority NHS Health Check case studies published

The Local Government Association has published ‘Checking the health of the nation: implementing the NHS Health Check programme’, which includes case studies on delivery from:

• Southwark’s use of volunteers to boost uptake
• Stoke-on-Trent council using research to engage hard-to-reach groups
• Leeds city council providing support to GPs to increase uptake 
• Buckinghamshire county council running outreach clinics to target hard-to-reach groups 
• Lewisham using pharmacists to deliver NHS Health Check