Health check
When a person reach age of 50, a doctor will normally ask to have a proper health check if he or she never had one done before. The recommended health check should include:
- Blood pressure
- Blood tests for fasting cholesterol, sugar, full blood count, electrolytes, kidney function, liver function tests
- Iron studies, vitamin B12, thyroid function test, folic acid, PSA and Vitamin D level are subject to patient's condition. A doctor will need to ask question to justify these tests are necessary
- Skin check especially Caucasians to look for skin cancer such as basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma and etc
- *Faecal occult blood test to detect bowel cancer
GP mental health plan
GP mental health plan is service that entitle a patient access to psychologist due to mental health illness. As this is one of the most claim item, I would like to make everyone aware how this system works.
Vitamins a waste of money
A study done by experts in UK and US on Vitamins supplement states do not improve general health well being. Instead, it is a waste of money.
An Australian Doctor publish a news as below:
The first paper by researchers from Harvard University aimed to determine whether long-term multivitamin use could help prevent age-related cognitive impairment.