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"Health MOTs routinely offered to over-40s on the NHS may be a waste of time," the Mail Online reports.
The report says researchers have found no difference in the prevalence of diseases such as diabetes in GP practices that offer NHS Health Checks and those that don't.
NHS Health Checks were introduced in 2009 and are designed to act as a midlife "MOT" (as the Mail describes it).
This study compared GP practices in Warwickshire that implemented NHS Health checks between 2010 and 2013 with those that did not.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/08August/Pages/NHS-Health-Checks-make-no-difference-study-claims.aspx
The report says researchers have found no difference in the prevalence of diseases such as diabetes in GP practices that offer NHS Health Checks and those that don't.
NHS Health Checks were introduced in 2009 and are designed to act as a midlife "MOT" (as the Mail describes it).
This study compared GP practices in Warwickshire that implemented NHS Health checks between 2010 and 2013 with those that did not.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/08August/Pages/NHS-Health-Checks-make-no-difference-study-claims.aspx