POPPING to the GP for a general check-up will not ward off serious illness or save your life, new research has revealed.
A study which looked at the impact of offering patients routine health MOTs in a number of different countries found little evidence they kept heart attacks at bay or prevented deaths from cancer.
Writing about the findings, Professor Domhnall MacAuley, clinical editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), said offering the population a general health check was "ineffective and probably a waste of resources".
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