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Health and Social Care Services

I am happy to make it clear that in the first instance the NHS life check will not be carried out by GPs or nurses. That would not be the best use of those resources, so the first stage will be the self-assessment process. Then people in the higher risk categories will be offered the help of a health trainer—a proposal that came from the public and was in the ““Choosing Health”” White Paper—and the first of them are being employed in the most disadvantaged areas, in the spearhead primary care trusts where we shall be piloting the NHS life check. For people in high risk categories who may need more than the support of a health trainer, there would be follow-up by a nurse practitioner, a GP or some other qualified clinician.