Professor Jonathan Benger, deputy chief executive and chief medical officer at NICE Jonathan continued: "Annual monitoring of BMI and waist-to-height ratio is a powerful tool to help prevent problems ...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has proposed BMI checks for patients in England with long-term conditions. In draft guidance, the regulator also suggested measuring ...

NICE added that while annual physical checks already take place for people with long term conditions, the recording of someone’s BMI and waist-to-height ratio is ‘not always taking place or added to a ...

While patients with long-term conditions already have annual health checks, body mass index (BMI) or waist-to-height ratio is ...

While patients with long-term conditions already have annual health checks, body mass index (BMI) or waist-to-height ratio is not always recorded, according to Nice. Its new draft quality standard ...