Smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors’ surgeries in central Manchester will be invited for a lung health check from August 2024 onwards..
The quick, free checks can help find lung cancer at an early stage – before you might have any symptoms – when it is much more treatable and help save lives.
Most visitors to the lung health checks will get reassurance that everything is OK or be referred to get help to stop smoking.
The checks are currently in the process of being rolled out across Greater Manchester. Checks will be available to current or former shisha or cigarette smokers, aged 55-74 based at
- Levenshulme Medical Centre M19 3BX
- West Point Medical Centre M19 2AF
- Gorton Medical Centre M18 8LJ
- Mount Road Surgery M18 7BQ
- West Gorton Medical Practice M12 5JE
- Ashcroft Surgery M19 3BS
- Hawthorn Medical Centre M14 6FS
- Vallance Medical M13 9UJ
- Ailsa Craig Medical Centre M13 0YL
- Surrey Lodge Group Practice M14 5BY
- Dickenson Road Medical Centre M13 0WQ
- Ardwick Medical Practice M13 9UJ
- Brunswick Medical Practice M13 9UJ
- Wilmslow Road Media Centre M14 5LQ
- Parkside Surgery M12 5RU
- Manchester Integrative Medical Practice (Longsight Medical Practice) M13 0RR
- The Robert Darbishire Practice M14 5NP
- New Bank Health M12 4JE
The mobile clinic will be based at Tesco Extra, Gorton.
Patients who are invited for a lung health check will firstly talk to specialist nurse where they will answer some health and lifestyle questions which will determine whether they are ‘high’ or ‘low’ risk. If deemed high risk, they will be offered a low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan of their lungs for further investigation on the same day and be enrolled into the programme.
These new Lung Health checks are the latest phase of the Greater Manchester Targeted Lung Health Check Programme – a drive to help improve earlier diagnosis of lung cancer and save more lives. The programme is jointly organised by the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. There checks will be rolled out further in the coming months and years to ensure that all eligible participants are invited.
So far more than 500 patients have been diagnosed with lung cancer as a result of the Lung Health Checks in Greater Manchester, however, almost 80% of these patients were diagnosed at stage 1 or 2 meaning they were more likely to be eligible for curative treatment.
People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stage are nearly 20 times more likely to survive for five years than those whose cancer is caught late.
NHS Lung Health Checked are already available in many parts of North Manchester. There are further plans to expand the programme to other parts of Manchester in the coming months including to Hulme/Moss Side where it will cover the following surgeries: The Whitswood Practice, M16 7AP; The Arch Medical Practice, M15 5TJ; Cornbrook Medical Practice, M15 4EA; The Doc’s Surgery, M1 3LY.
Eligible patients will be contacted by letter or via text message.
For more information on the Targeted Lung Health Check programme please visit www.mft.nnhs.uk/lunghealthcheck
If you have received your invitation but missed your appointment, please call 0161 529 0900 to rebook.
If you have concerning symptoms you should speak to your GP who will be able to refer you for tests if needed.
You can read about symptoms of lung cancer here: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lung-cancer/symptoms/