Asda partnership expands access to heart health checks

Asda is to stock a new home heart test that can provide the NHS with test results for cardiovascular disease within minutes.

© Asda

© Asda

The test was developed by PocDoc, a digital health diagnostics company, and provides patients with a full cholesterol profile, body mass index score, heart age, and 10-year risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

Earlier this year the test became the first of its kind to be integrated with the NHS Health Check app, allowing patients to able to carry out tests at home and share results with the NHS in around nine minutes.

Faisal Tuddy, Head of Pharmacy at Asda Pharmacy, said: ‘The launch of PocDoc in our pharmacies is part of our wider commitment to support local communities to improve their long-term health.

‘We hope that by launching these tests in our pharmacies we can encourage more patients to take the necessary steps to improve their long-term health and prevent, or delay, disease.'

Steve Roest, chief executive and co-founder of PocDoc, added: ‘Working with Asda means bringing heart health into the places where people already go about their daily lives. We are committed to making healthcare accessible, and launching in Asda is a step towards making health checks as routine as your weekly shop.'

Asda, which is the first UK supermarket to stock the test in its stores, will offer the health check kits in 242 of its pharmacies.

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