Future cost-effectiveness and equity of the NHS Health Check cardiovascular disease prevention programme: Microsimulation modelling using data from Liverpool, UK

Chris Kypridemos, Brendan Collins, Philip McHale, Helen Bromley, Paula Parvulescu, Simon Capewell and Martin O’Flaherty

PLOS Medicine, 2018, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-20

Abstract: Background: Aiming to contribute to prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), the National Health Service (NHS) Health Check programme has been implemented across England since 2009. The programme involves cardiovascular risk stratification—at 5-year intervals—of all adults between the ages of 40 and 74 years, excluding any with preexisting vascular conditions (including CVD, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension, among others), and offers treatment to those at high risk. However, the cost-effectiveness and equity of population CVD screening is contested. This study aimed to determine whether the NHS Health Check programme is cost-effective and equitable in a city with high levels of deprivation and CVD. Methods and findings: IMPACTNCD is a dynamic stochastic microsimulation policy model, calibrated to Liverpool demographics, risk factor exposure, and CVD epidemiology. Using local and national data, as well as drawing on health and social care disease costs and health-state utilities, we modelled 5 scenarios from 2017 to 2040:Scenario (A): continuing current implementation of NHS Health Check;Scenario (B): implementation ‘targeted’ toward areas in the most deprived quintile with increased coverage and uptake;Scenario (C): ‘optimal’ implementation assuming optimal coverage, uptake, treatment, and lifestyle change;Scenario (D): scenario A combined with structural population-wide interventions targeting unhealthy diet and smoking;Scenario (E): scenario B combined with the structural interventions as above. Conclusions: According to our analysis of the situation in Liverpool, current NHS Health Check implementation appears neither equitable nor cost-effective. Optimal implementation is likely to be cost-saving but not equitable, while targeted implementation is likely to be both. Adding structural policies targeting cardiovascular risk factors could substantially improve equity and generate cost savings. In a modeling study, Chris Kypridemos and colleagues assess the NHS Health Checks program for cardiovascular risk screening in Liverpool, UK.Why was this study done?: What did the researchers do and find?: What do these findings mean?:

Date: 2018
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