Dr Jahangir Alom (Letters, 17 November) raises an important issue regarding midlife health checks. He rightly points out that people (especially men) from certain cultural backgrounds not engaging with vital NHS checks is a problem which needs to be solved. I wonder, though, how many other people in their late 60s, living in east London like me, have just found out through the Guardian letters page that these health checks exist. Could it be that many of those who aren’t engaging with the process simply haven’t been told that there is a process with which to engage?
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• At 85, I don’t remember ever having been invited to a health check. When I went for my Covid jab, I asked if I would be offered one and was told: “If you don’t bother us, we won’t bother you.”
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
