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People in Bury and Radcliffe will be offered a Lung Health Check in Autumn 2025 as part of the Greater Manchester Lung Cancer Screening Programme. The lung health checks will be available to people who are current OR former cigarette or shisha smokers aged 55-74 and based at the following groups of GP practices (Primary Care Networks): Bury PCN: Townside Surgery - BL9 0SN Ramsbottom Medical Practice - BL0 9DD Radcliffe Medical Practice - M26 2SP Monarch Medical Centre - M26 2QZ Knowsley Medical Centre - BL9 0ST Walmersley Road Medical Practice - BL9 6DX Huntley [...]

People in Bolton who are current or former smokers are being offered an ‘MOT for their lungs’ this September. The NHS will be offering free lung health checks which can help find lung cancer at an early stage when it is much more treatable to help save lives. The quick checks – which will take place on board a mobile clinic parked in a community location - are for people who smoke or who have previously smoked cigarettes or shisha and who are aged 55-74 years. The checks are currently available for eligible people registered with [...]

Greater Manchester has become the first area in England to diagnose more than 1,000 people with lung cancer earlier thanks to innovative NHS Lung Cancer Screening. Tom Harrison who has benefitted from a Lung Health Check with his wife Trish The screening specifically targets people who are at an increased risk of lung cancer to help improve early diagnosis of lung cancer. These people are offered a lung health check which takes place onboard a mobile clinic, often parked in supermarket car parks In Greater Manchester, almost 130,000 people have [...]

A GREATER MANCHESTER man who builds turbochargers for anything from fast cars to trucks and has thanked the NHS for rebuilding him after cancer. Now he is back building turbochargers to power sports cars and helping to speed up diagnosis for other cancer patients. When Ben Garlick, now 54, from Denton, had a persistent cough, he thought it must be COVID-19. But when his cough wouldn’t go away, he went to his GP and was sent for tests at Tameside Hospital. It was here he got the devastating news he had cancer of the voicebox, also [...]

People in parts of Stockport who are current or former smokers are being offered a free lung health check this summer. The NHS will be offering lung cancer screening which can help find lung cancer at an early stage when it is much more treatable to help save lives. The quick checks – which will take place on board a mobile clinic parked at Heaton Lane car park, Heaton Lane, Stockport SK4 1AR - are for people who smoke or who have previously smoked cigarettes or shisha and who are aged 55-74 years. The checks are [...]

A suite of films has been launched in Greater Manchester to support autistic women and women with a learning disability to access potentially life-saving cervical cancer screening. Believed to the first of their kind in the country, the films have been made by autistic women and women with a learning disability for their peers – with a breadth of real-life experiences shaping every stage of development. This group of people often experience poorer health and shorter life expectancy compared to the general population. They also face barriers to cancer screening programmes, leading to lower uptake. [...]

An Oldham dad living with incurable breast cancer is urging men to be aware of the symptoms, during Men’s Health Week. David McCallion David McCallion, 55, from Moorside, Oldham, wants to raise awareness among men after his own unexpected diagnosis. The father-of-two had visited his GP for an unrelated issue in 2019 when, at the end of the appointment, the doctor asked if there was anything else bothering him. David mentioned noticing an inverted nipple—an offhand comment that led to a life-changing discovery. He said: “I noticed my nipple had become inverted. I left [...]

A GRANDAD and former marathon runner from Farnworth is urging others to go for their lung health checks when invited after his trip to the clinic – based in a supermarket car park — showed he had lung cancer, despite him having no symptoms at all. Trish and Tom Tom Harrison, 70, who is an avid golfer, received his lung cancer diagnosis in late November 2024 after attending NHS Lung Cancer Screening onboard a mobile clinic parked outside a Tesco in Atherton, Wigan. His wife, Trisha, 59, had been invited a few weeks earlier [...]

Current and former smokers who are registered with a GP in Partington and Urmston will be offered an ‘MOT for their lungs’ from mid-July. The NHS will be offering free Lung Health Checks which can help find lung cancer at an early stage when it is much more treatable to help save lives. The quick checks are for people who smoke or have smoked cigarettes and who are aged 55-74 years old. The checks are currently available for eligible people registered with the following groups of GP practices in Urmston and Partington which make up [...]