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.

Why would anyone choose not to know their own heart health? Psychologists call it the Ostrich Effect, and understanding it may be the key to closing the gap between a treatable risk and a preventable tragedy.

A single cholesterol result is useful, but it's a snapshot, not a sentence. PocDoc co-founder Dr Vlad Gubala explains why your number naturally moves, what actually drives it, and why one reading should never be mistaken for a diagnosis.

She'd always avoided the doctor, until her son had a stroke at 31. Her story is one that millions will recognise, and the research on why we put off getting checked, and why we shouldn't, is more urgent than you'd think.

Your company probably offers fruit bowls, gym discounts and a ping pong table. But cardiovascular disease doesn't show up in your absence data, it just happens. Here's why workplace heart screening is the prevention gap most employers overlook.

From GP surgeries to football clubs, from NHS trusts to workplaces, PocDoc delivered 3,442 cardiovascular screenings across eight partners in a single month, proof of what scaled, community-based prevention looks like in practice.

Around 300 residents were screened in three days near Heathrow Airport, in PocDoc's first joint programme integrating a community pharmacy and a GP federation. Of those tested, 40% had never had an NHS Health Check before.

In just five days, the Darlington Healthy Hearts Roadshow delivered 150 cardiovascular screenings across the borough's most underserved communities, nearly a fifth of a typical GP practice's entire annual quota, without using a single minute of GP time.

Four months ago, PocDoc had zero Amazon sales. Last week, our Cholesterol Home Test Kit broke into Amazon UK's Top 50 Best Sellers across all test categories. Here's what we learned about scaling on Amazon, and why we'd be number one if the rankings only counted UK-manufactured tests.

PocDoc, the UK’s leading digital diagnostics company, has partnered with Chelsea and Westminster, one of London’s largest NHS Trusts, to revolutionise cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention in the Capital.

PocDoc, the UK’s leading digital diagnostics company, has partnered with Romanes Pharmacy Group to increase access to cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening in Scotland.