Revolutionary mobile application for cardiovascular disease management achieves significant user milestone
PocDoc's Healthy Heart Check Brings Cardiovascular Screening to Communities Across the UK
PocDoc's Healthy Heart Check, a cutting-edge cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening service, is now being rolled out across multiple regions in the UK. This initiative is made possible through commissioned partnerships with local NHS bodies and national partnerships with UK retail partners.
The Healthy Heart Check offers patients a QRISK3 score, a comprehensive cholesterol profile, BMI score, and heart age calculation through a simple finger-prick test. As recommended by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the primary prevention of CVD, the QRISK3 score provides an accurate assessment of an individual's 10-year risk of heart attack or stroke.
The partnership between PocDoc and Endeavour Predict CIC is instrumental in increasing access to healthcare across the country and empowering individuals to take control of their heart health. Since the launch of the Healthy Heart Check, this partnership has generated the majority of all QRISK3 scores registered across the UK from communities, workplaces, and homes.
PocDoc aims to help half a million individuals manage their heart health by the end of 2025, through this partnership. The NHS estimates that each digital health check could save 20 minutes of NHS time, resulting in £27 billion in reduced costs over the next ten years, and help save up to one million people annually from heart attacks and strokes.
The Healthy Heart Check is the first service of its kind to be fully integrated with the NHS App, providing patients with a clear care pathway depending on the outcome. This innovative approach leverages PocDoc's smartphone-based diagnostic technology to perform convenient, accessible risk screening outside traditional clinical settings.
Steve Roest, Co-Founder and CEO of PocDoc, states that the company is demonstrating the power of healthtech innovation in delivering preventative care at scale. The impact of PocDoc's Healthy Heart Check lies in its ability to bring point-of-care cardiovascular risk assessment directly to communities, facilitating early detection and prevention of CVD.
This model aligns with NHS objectives to enable earlier detection and personalized care pathways while reducing pressure on frontline health services. By integrating into community and home settings, PocDoc’s solution supports the NHS’s shift towards more sustainable, patient-centered, and digitally enabled screening services.
In June 2025, the Healthy Heart Check was offered in a mobile format via a bus tour in Birmingham and Solihull, where residents received rapid finger-prick blood testing for heart health assessment. This initiative, part of the partnership with NHS Birmingham and Solihull, showcases the potential of PocDoc's Healthy Heart Check to make a significant impact on CVD prevention in the UK.
Shane Tickell, CEO of Endeavour Predict CIC, emphasizes the mission to scale the prevention of CVD using cutting-edge technology and real-time data. The partnership between PocDoc and Endeavour Predict CIC is a testament to this mission, as they work together to deliver on their mutual goal of massively scaling CVD screening and risk assessments outside of GP surgeries.
- PocDoc's Healthy Heart Check, which utilizes digital diagnostics and smartphone-based technology, is currently expanding cardiovascular health screenings across the UK, collaborating with NHS bodies and retail partners.
- The Healthy Heart Check, with its simple finger-prick test, offers a QRISK3 score, a comprehensive cholesterol profile, BMI score, and heart age calculation, contributing to the primary prevention of cardiovascular conditions as recommended by the UK's NICE.
- By providing an accurate assessment of an individual's 10-year risk of heart attack or stroke, the Healthy Heart Check empowers people to take charge of their heart health and makes a significant impact on the overall health-and-wellness and fitness-and-exercise sectors.
- The partnership between PocDoc and Endeavour Predict CIC aims to push the boundaries of digital health and medical-conditions management, with the goal of scaling cardiovascular screening and risk assessments within the community and home environments, thus reducing pressure on traditional healthcare services.
