Health Checks for Over 40s

This was an interesting news story at the weekend. The NHS is to start to offer health checks for over 40s. When you think about it we do this for other areas of health (dentistry and eyesight). Both of these areas have far better early warning systems too (tootache and poor vision), whereas general health you wait for symptoms before going to see your doctor.

There was some doubt as to whether this would create a flood of new cases. Maybe initially but surely treating early symptoms is better than treating more established illnesses.

Of course this news story struggled to get much airtime, what with the Home Secretary getting the tax payer to pay for adult movies!