A �10m drive to improve preventive healthcare in deprived areas is to be launched later this year, Health Minister Andy Kerr has announced. It will operate in seven areas and will include health checks for blood pressure and diabetes as well as lifestyle and smoking factors.
The service operates in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Lanarkshire.
It is being extended to Aberdeen, Fife, North and South Ayrshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire.
Mr Kerr said: "We are moving from a culture of treating ill-health to preventing it, as locally as possible."
He said the new and "ambitious" approach sought to engage with people who had traditionally not made best use of health services.
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