It has been announced that the current NHS Health Check scheme is to be scrapped in Southampton after a report by Medicspot revealed only 42 per cent of eligible people had participated in the scheme.
Southampton was named in the report as among the least proactive places in England when it comes to health due to the low number of people who took part in the scheme over the last five years.
The report compares regional NHS data on the utilisation of health checks, a free service offered by the NHS to everyone aged 40–74 to prevent premature death from heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and type 2 diabetes.