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Health checks you need
Health checks can help you stay healthy.
Doctors can do checks on your body to make sure things are OK.
There are many health checks you can get.
Health checks include:
- blood tests
- hearing and eyesight checks
- weight checks
There are cancer checks you can get for
- your bowel
- your breasts and your cervix if you are a woman
As you get older you can have:
- bone health checks
- thinking and memory checks.
Getting these health checks is called preventive health care.
We have lots of resources on preventative health care and health checks on this website.
Doctors can check your body to make sure everything is working well. Health checks like this help you stay healthy.
Health checks you can get include:
- blood tests to see if you body is working well
- cancer checks for your bowel
- cancer checks for your breasts and your if you are a woman or are a person with a cervix
the lower part of the uterus that connects to the top of the vagina
- hearing and eyesight checks
- weight checks
- bone health checks
- thinking and memory checks.
Getting these health checks is called preventive health care.