{"id":360892,"date":"2026-01-09T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360892\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:51:07","slug":"cholesterol-testing-expanded-to-70-east-london-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360892\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol testing expanded to 70 east London pharmacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shilpa Patel, a patient who took up the free test offer in Poplar, said: &#8220;My parents suffered with high cholesterol. My dad died at an early age of a heart attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think for me I&#8217;m at an age where I should try and stay on top of these things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones said the programme was part of efforts to make more services available within pharmacies to reduce pressure on GP surgeries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The scheme is currently being evaluated, so they&#8217;ll be able to compare the costs and the savings that are made as a consequence,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If found to be successful, Jones said cholesterol tests at pharmacies could be rolled out nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shilpa Patel, a patient who took up the free test offer in Poplar, said: &#8220;My parents suffered with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-360892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}