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Hypertension: Screening

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 23400, tabled on 28 June 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is available to people with the cost of purchasing a blood pressure monitor where GPs require patients to take blood pressure readings at home.

Answered on

7 July 2021

NHS England and NHS Improvement are supporting local systems to facilitate patients to remotely manage their blood pressure, where appropriate. Approximately 200,000 monitors have been made available for distribution.