What should be in a health MOT for over-50s?
A free NHS health check will be offered with Covid booster jabs this autumn but it might not pick up all the issues that plague midlifers
14 May 2021 • 4:39pm Like many over-50s, there’s quite a bit of me that needs attention once you lift the bonnet; knees, back, hip – they all give me grief from time to time
The outgoing head of the NHS, Sir Simon Stevens, has said that a free NHS health check, or “MOT”, will be given to all over-50s as and when they take up the offer of a Covid booster jab in the autumn.
GambleAware recommends that gambling prevalence research should move online Share
GambleAware has published ‘
commissioned research’ to clarify fragmented data, insights and analysis of the UK’s gambling participation and its associated prevalence of related harms.
The research, undertaken by Professor
Patrick Sturgis and Professor
London School of Economics, was commissioned by GambleAware following concerns about discrepancies between a
YouGov 2019 survey and ‘
2018 Health Survey for England’.
YouGov feedback registered ‘substantially higher rates of gambling harm than had previously been estimated using the 2018 Health Survey for England, both providing separate
Problem Gambling Severity Index (
PGSI)’.
The surveys produced widely varying estimates of ‘problem gambling’ within the UK, indicated by a PGSI score of 8+, ranging from 0.7% to 2.4% of adults.
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Researchers found girls who are lesbian or bisexual are more than twice as likely as straight girls to have an eating disorder
Young LGBT+ people are three times more likely to have previously had an eating disorder or still be suffering from one, a new study has found.
A report, carried out by Just Like Us, a charity that supports young LGBT+ people, found girls who are lesbian or bisexual are more than twice as likely as straight girls to have an eating disorder.
The research, shared exclusively with
The Independent, discovered one in five LGBT+ young people has had or currently has an eating disorder, significantly higher than the seven per cent of non-LGBT+ young people.
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