No men’s health strategy on horizon as government focuses on promoting health checks

The UK government is trying to highlight the importance of health checks for men and improving access as part of wider work to improve men’s health, the health minister Maria Caulfield has told MPs.While there were no plans for a men’s health strategy, she said that the Department for Health and Social Care was in the process of recruiting a men’s health ambassador—a role first announced in November that is yet to be filled.1 Research suggests that men are less likely than women to take up an offer of a health check.2Caulfield, who was being quizzed by MPs on the Health and Social Care Committee at a hearing on men’s health on 7 May, said, “One of the things that we’ve had feedback on is that men don’t want to just hear, ‘Come and get your blood pressure checked because it might prevent a heart attack.’ They want to know,…
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