Jacqueline from Luton is a mum of two grown up children and has a grandchild, she wants to tell her story to encourage people who may have received an invitation for a lung health check, to take it...

The NHS Targeted Lung Health Check Programme is the biggest initiative in NHS history aimed at improving early lung cancer diagnosis, and is specifically targeted at areas of the country with the h...

A successful lung health awareness event was held in October at the Eastgate Shopping Centre, Basildon for visitors to find out more about lung health and the targeted lung health check programme. ...

Current and ex-smokers in parts of east and north Hertfordshire are being invited to have a free lung health check as part of a national programme. The Targeted Lung Health Check is open to people...

Published 6 December 2019 To coincide with the start of Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November 2019, Luton held an event in the town’s main shopping centre to launch the targeted lung health chec...

Published 14 January 2020 This autumn, The Roy Castle Mega Lungs were at a number of locations in Thurrock to raise awareness of the brand new NHS Lung Health checks and lung health in general. A...

Published 03 February 2021 The long-awaited Targeted Lung Health Checks for Thurrock have begun with the first CT scanner mobile units seeing Thurrock residents at Thurrock Community Hospital. The...

Published 24 May 2021 The Targeted Lung Health Checks programme team received a visit on 21 May from Thurrock MP, Jackie Doyle-Price and on 24 May from Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon and ...

(Published 26 July 2021) If the answer is yes – local health leaders are asking you not to delay taking up the offer. An advertising campaign on bus shelters and town centre screens has been laun...

(Published 29 November 2021) A grandfather who had been suffering from breathlessness has urged the public to take their health seriously, after a free cancer check revealed he had lung cancer. ...

We spoke to David recently who was keen to share his experience of being invited to the Targeted Lung Health Check programme which led to him successfully quitting cigarettes with the help of the l...