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Well person checks |
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We offer a health check to anyone who feels they need one. To get
one, phone reception and ask for an appointment with a nurse for a well person
check. You can normally be seen within a few days. Please bring a specimen of
urine with you. If you need a specimen bottle we can provide one at reception. If you have symptoms that might be due to illness you should see a doctor about it if possible. Well person checks are for people who believe themselves to be healthy and want to find out they are not suffering from something unrecognised such as diabetes or raised blood pressure. The nurse that sees you well ask questions about you body functions and general wellbeing. She will want to know your consumption of alcohol and tobacco and other lifestyle factors. She will weigh and measure you and check urine and blood pressure. You will have your immunisations checked and offered any you have missed. She will arrange for a cholesterol test if you have never previously had one. You can discuss any health concerns that you have. At the end of the check you will be told of any findings that will affect your health and be given advice about correcting them. Most things that affect peoples health are obvious such as being overweight, smoking and consuming excess alcohol. If you don't have those problems then a blood pressure and urine check that are normal will be an excellent outcome for you. If you have any of these factors it is still worth getting blood pressure and urine checked. But you should be prepared to let us help you correct the adverse factors. What we do NOT do, is run a whole battery of blood, heart and lung tests. There is very little benefit from doing that in an apparently healthy person and NHS resources do not stretch that far. If that is what you require then that can be done through private organisations such as BUPA. Many people will have had these checks done for other reasons and therefore not benefit from further checking. We would suggest that if you have not had these checks done you should get one every 5 years up to age 50, every 2 years until 75 and annually thereafter. |
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