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PocDoc's Clinical Medical Director, Dr Kate Bunyan, features in the Daily Express on the everyday foods that look after your heart, and one small habit that stops the healthy ones going to waste.
A peer-reviewed study of 4,256 people found serious, treatable heart risk hiding in plain sight, and showed that going into communities reaches the people the current system keeps missing.
PocDoc are backing Cambridge Housing Society's Employment Support Fund, which helps vulnerable young people take their first steps into work without risking the roof over their heads. Because for too many, getting a first job can actually leave them worse off.
For the first time, GP surgeries across the Thames Valley are offering home finger-prick heart checks. BBC South Today was there to meet a patient whose routine asthma appointment turned into a potentially life-changing discovery.
Scotland's next big step in heart health starts at the pharmacy counter. Come and meet PocDoc at the Scottish Pharmacy Trade & Retail Show in Falkirk on 15–16 September, and see how a ten-minute check could help tackle the nation's biggest killer.
From the Shetland Islands to Jersey, from Belfast to Cornwall, at least one person in every single UK postcode area has now completed a Healthy Heart Check. All 124 areas. 100% of the map.
In a first-of-its-kind agreement, PocDoc is giving a five-site Thames Valley GP practice unlimited use of the Healthy Heart Check, so the decision to test a patient is driven by clinical need, not the cost of each check.
Cardiovascular disease claims around 5,460 lives in Greater Manchester every year. Now, in partnership with the British Heart Foundation and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, PocDoc is bringing heart health checks directly into the communities that need them most.
Triglycerides are the most variable number in your entire blood test. A single fatty meal can move them by up to 75%. Here's what they actually are, what drives them up and down, and why one high reading is never the full story.
A pharmacist-led screening programme found elevated cardiovascular risk in one in five people tested, the majority of whom felt perfectly healthy and would never otherwise have accessed a preventative check.
Two of the most powerful forces shaping your Healthy Heart Check results are smoking and excess weight. Here's exactly how each one moves your cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar, and why those numbers can improve faster than you'd think.
PocDoc has been named a flagship case study in the national document setting out how innovation will deliver the NHS 10 Year Plan, with £5.1m in confirmed NHS savings, 20,000 checks delivered, and 2,100 people directed to treatment in six months.
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