Our Future Health aims to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, with more locations set to be announced by the organisation on social media. How do they plan to work alongside the NHS to help people around the country? That’s coming right up.
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00:00 As the NHS ramps up the fight against dementia, cancer, diabetes and other long-term health
00:05 issues, health researchers will be opening 25 new clinics across the UK.
00:10 Our Future Health, a UK health research programme, will be unveiling a mix of mobile clinics,
00:14 pharmacies and blood donation centres up and down the country, with the organisation aiming
00:19 to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat the disease.
00:23 The organisation, which works alongside the NHS, charities and the private healthcare
00:27 sector will have a total of 122 UK locations once the new clinics open.
00:32 Dr Raghav Ali, Chief Medical Officer at Our Future Health, said with well over 100 clinics
00:38 and more opening each month, we're expanding so that everyone across the UK will have a
00:42 chance to take part in Our Future Health.
00:45 At their clinic appointments, as well as having a blood sample and some physical measurements
00:49 taken, volunteers will be offered information about their own health, including their blood
00:54 pressure and cholesterol levels.