Public Health Wales is launching its fourth annual ‘Screening for Life’ campaign on 1 July to raise awareness of the free national screening programmes offered by the NHS. The month-long campaign is aimed at encouraging people from across Wales to take up free NHS screening. This year’s campaign will focus on raising awareness of all screening and look at breaking down barriers to screening which may affect a person’s decision to take part in screening or not. Throughout the month,…

Women in Wales will benefit from a new cervical screening test that reduces the need for repeat smears. From May 31, women found to have very low level cell changes during their screening (smear test) will only be referred to colposcopy clinics if their test shows that they have the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) virus. HPV is a very common virus that most women will have at some point in their lives.  Although it usually clears without symptoms or treatment, some…