OUR Future Health, the UK’s largest health research programme, is opening a mobile clinic in Warrington this month.
Our Future Health will bring its mobile clinic to the Winwick Road Tesco supermarket car park and as well as 28 other supermarket car parks around the country.
Their aim is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. With up to five million volunteers right across the UK, the goal is to create one of the most detailed pictures ever of people’s health.
At their clinic appointment, as well as having a blood sample and some physical measurements taken, volunteers will be offered information about their own health, including their blood pressure and cholesterol levels. In the future, volunteers will also be given the option to receive feedback about their risk of some diseases and have the opportunity to take part in cutting-edge research studies.
The programme is sending invitations to people who live near the new clinics. Anyone over the age of 18 can join by signing up online at ourfuturehealth.org.uk, completing an online health questionnaire, and booking a short clinic appointment.
Our Future Health clinic locations can be viewed on an interactive map here.
Dr Raghib Ali, Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health, said: “It’s great to see increasingly more people sign up for Our Future Health to improve research into diseases. We’re opening new clinics each month so people across the UK can get involved and represent their community in health research. All it takes is completing a questionnaire and attending an appointment to make a real difference to the future of healthcare.”
