Know Your Numbers! Week

Every September, blood pressure checks are taken by thousands to prevent heart attacks and strokes. 

Know Your Numbers! Week reaches those who have high blood pressure and don’t know it, so they can get the treatment and support they need to bring it under control.

Previously, hundreds of organisations took part, setting up Pressure Stations in public places across the UK. From hospitals and health centres to offices, car parks and supermarkets. Even the Royal Albert Hall. Today, the Know Your Numbers! Week focus is on home blood pressure monitoring, as it's the easiest way to find out your blood pressure numbers. Take a look at the highlights from past campaigns.

Know Your Numbers! Week 2025

This will take place from 8 - 14 September 2025.

Registration is now open!

Register to take part

High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses. Once you Know Your Numbers! you can get support to bring your blood pressure under control and prevent these diseases. 

Around a third of people in the UK have high blood pressure, but most don’t know it. It doesn’t have any symptoms so, the only way to find out is to have a blood pressure check. 

Visit our online measuring your blood at home resources hub to download our range of home blood pressure monitoring resources for this Know Your Numbers! Week and beyond. 

How you got involved

As a Pressure Partner or Patient Ambassador, you had a crucial role to play. All registered participants received resource materials to use.

Become a Pressure Partner 

This role is for pharmacies, gyms, leisure centres, hospitals, GP surgeries, care centres, Local authorities, libraries, and employers. 

• Promote home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) by encouraging purchase (including in your own pharmacies) or sharing of blood pressure monitors. For example, online via your websites, newsletters, and social media. 
• Offer guidance on how to use a monitor properly and what to do if the reading is high.
• Direct people to our website and helpline where they can find all sorts of information about choosing a home monitor, how to use it, and how to look after their blood pressure.
• Patients may not be able to get a blood pressure check in pharmacies, or GP surgeries, but patients still need help and guidance from their healthcare professional, and shared decision-making on their treatment and medicine adherence. You have a vital role in offering this support. 
• Talk about the risks of high blood pressure such as heart disease, stroke, and dementia, and reinforce the healthy lifestyle message, namely the role of healthy eating and physical activity.

Become a Patient Ambassador

This role is for the general public, patients, and our members. As a Patient Ambassador, you will be a great support to our Pressure Partners and help spread the word.

• Host a ‘Home Pressure Station’.
• Speak to friends and family to encourage them to buy or borrow a blood pressure monitor and start measuring their blood pressure at home.
• Speak to community groups about home monitoring, such as your local Rotary, library, or patient groups. 
• Start a group chat called ‘We Know Our Numbers’ where you can share healthy living ideas.
• Tell us your blood pressure story (anonymously if you wish) so we can inspire others to know their numbers.
• Direct people to our website and helpline where they can find all sorts of information about choosing a home monitor, how to use it, and looking after their blood pressure.  
• Plus, see the other ways you can help. 

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Check out some of our highlights from previous campaigns and see how we reach thousands of people every year. 

• 2024 – You Have the Power
  Know Your Numbers! Week 2024 took on high blood pressure by encouraging you that you have the power to successfully manage your blood pressure at home. Get checked before damage is done.

• 2023 – Make the time, ease your pressure.
  Home blood pressure monitoring was the key message. We encouraged the nation to make the time to check their blood pressure with a home blood pressure monitor, or at the pharmacy or GP to ease their pressure.

• 2022 – Measure. Modify. Manage.
  We got the nation checking their blood pressure at home for a third year. We encouraged the nation to measure their blood pressure, modify their lifestyle if necessary, and in turn manage their health.

• 2021 – Are YOUR pipes in good working order?
  We got the nation checking their blood pressure at home for a second year to take on the forgotten pandemic of high blood pressure. 

• 2020 – YOU are in control
  This year's Know Your Numbers! Week was a little different to usual, and we got the nation checking their blood pressure at home.

• 2019 – Live well for longer
  This year's Know Your Numbers! Week was all about knowing your blood pressure numbers to live a long and healthy life.

• 2018 – Do you KNOW YOUR risks of high blood pressure NUMBERS?
  Many people don’t know the risks associated with having uncontrolled or undiagnosed high blood pressure. We highlighted these risks and encouraged ALL family members to check their blood pressure to reduce their risk of stroke or CVD.

• 2017 – Stop stroke
  With the proportion of strokes in younger adults on the rise, we urged the UK to Know Your Numbers! regardless of your age.
  
  
• 2016 – Know Your Numbers! Know Your Risks!  
  This year we asked: Are you a risk taker? You are if you don't know your blood pressure numbers!
  
  
• 2015 – Make every second count
  A blood pressure check is quick, free, painless, and could save your life – that’s why we urged everyone to make every second count and get a check.
  
  
• 2014 – Hunt for the missing millions
  There are eight million people in the UK living with high blood pressure but not being treated for it – we set out to find them.  

• 2013 – Do you have lucky numbers?
  We asked: Do you have lucky numbers? and over 1,200 Pressure Stations helped us find out.
  
  
• 2012 – Do you know your Partner's blood pressure?
  We encouraged the nation to not only find out their own blood pressure numbers, but their partner’s too.
  
  
• 2011 – Ignorance isn’t always bliss
  We revealed that nearly three quarters of UK adults don't know their blood pressure numbers. 

• 2010 – Are you gambling with your health?
  Nurses at Caer Health in Wales took 2,300 blood pressures in eight hours, smashing the Guinness World Record.
  
  
• 2009 – Could you be the one in three?
  A third of adults have high blood pressure and a third of those don’t know it – we went in search of the one in three.
  
  
• 2008 – Are you at risk from the blood pressure time bomb?
  A quarter of a million people had a free blood pressure check as we tried to stop the blood pressure time bomb, an achievement recognised by The Charity Awards.

• 2007 – Finding the missing millions
  16 million people in the UK have high blood pressure but 5.3 million of them don’t know it, putting them at risk of heart attacks and stroke. We set out to find them.

Feeling inspired? See how you can get involved.