Where value for money cannot be demonstrated, consideration should be given to dropping programmes such as general health checks and redirecting this investment to other health care activities. At the same time, the low rates of uptake of interventions proven to reduce mortality - such as cancer screening - point to the need to widen access to professionals and the public and incentivise both to engage in preventive health care more actively. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Some elements of the preventive health care put in place for these conditions is excellent, notably the quality control surrounding breast screening, the early introduction of screening for colorectal cancer relative to other OECD countries and the surveillance carried out by the Czech Republic’s long-standing cancer registry.