PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cholesterol: Screening (24 June 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients can access cholesterol checks (a) during and (b) after the covid-19 outbreak.
Asked by:
Lee Anderson (Reform UK)
Asked by:
Lee Anderson (Reform UK)
Answer
Cholesterol is tested as part of the NHS Health Check programme and will be available to eligible people once service delivery resumes.
In addition to the NHS Health Check programme, those patients with medical conditions that require monitoring of cholesterol will have this done in the usual way through primary medical care services.
Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
7 July 2020
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