Claims: Free cholesterol tests on the NHS are great – but here’s the five-point health MOT I’d really like to see | Devi Sridhar
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- title: Free cholesterol tests on the NHS are great – but here’s the five-point health MOT I’d really like to see | Devi Sridhar Source
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/02/nhs-free-cholesterol-tests-health-symptom Source
- summary: You could be walking around symptom-free and not know you’re pre-diabetic, living with hypertension or at a high risk of a heart attack Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Benjamin Franklin’s adage goes. Yet that simple prescription has been hard to follow in the current NHS. As has been frequently highlighted , one of the biggest challenges for the health system is not just how much we spend per cap… Source
- published: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:00:25 GMT Source