Health Assessments - Healthy Cornwall

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Healthy Cornwall are now offering Health Assessments for anyone that isn’t eligible for a NHS Health Check and that live or work in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. A Health Assessment is a brief health intervention that may help to consolidate a healthy lifestyle or flag up areas that need to be improved e.g. BMi or identify a hidden aspect of health with a Blood Pressure check.

A health assessment consists of:

• BMI measured via the ‘Tanita’ body composition scales which also provide information on many health aspects besides BMI all on a print-out, an information sheet will also be provided.

• A Blood pressure check

• Lifestyle screening which will discuss:

Activity levels & Exercise
Healthy Eating & Diet
Smoking (& support to quit)
Hydration
Alcohol
Over 25’s will also receive a QRisk3 assessment which is a 10yr projection for risk of heart attack or a stroke based on the results collated on the day.

For more details on how to organise Health Assessments for your workforce contact us at healthy.cornwall@cornwall.gov.uk

Please Note: A Health Assessment does not include a cholesterol check, however, if this was something your organisation wished us to include, we can provide this for a small cost of £12 per person to cover our resource expense.