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Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

I hope you enjoy it.

In today's program, the NHS Blood Service relies on the generosity of donors to maintain vital supplies.

So the last thing it needs are rumours that has been flogged off to a group of private equity investors.

We do our bit to put the record straight.

Diabetes in pregnancy, a growing problem that now affects around one in 20 pregnant

women in the UK with potentially serious consequences for both mother and baby. I meet a team

who've turned to an app to help women manage their diabetes. Anne Crohn's disease, we visit

Adam Brooks Hospital to answer a listener's concerns about the outlook for her 12-year-old son who's just being diagnosed with this type of common inflammatory bowel disease.

But first...

Well, more than 650 lives could be saved each year if everyone aged between 40 and 74 went for a free annual health check.

Public Health, England is starting a campaign to make sure more people

take up the test for blood pressure, cholesterol and weight. So are the NHS health checks

everything they're cracked up to be? According to Public Health England, the checks could save

at least 650 lives and prevent 1,600 heart attacks and 4,000 cases of diabetes every year.

Inside Health's resident skeptic, Dr Margaret McCartney, isn't convinced. Well, it's not based in evidence. That's the bottom line. So what

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