North Somerset's NHS Trust says 'considerable improvements have been made' in the delivery of health checks for local resident - designed to prevent conditions like diabetes, heart disease and kidney failure.

It's after national charity Diabetes UK labelled the Primary Care Trust one of the worst-performing in the UK - saying just one-point-six percent of eligible people were given it in 2011/12 ... compared to a national average of nearly fourteen percent.

But the local Trust says the number of checks done since April has increased by fourteen-hundred percent - and they're providing more training and equipment to try to achieve the government target.