News, Events & Support

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat and raises your risk of a serious stroke. Download the guide yma. to help reduce the risk of a stroke with AF.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the name for a group of conditions that affect your heart and blood vessels. It can often be prevented by having a healthy lifestyle or taking medicines if you need them.  Click the link yma. for further information.

The best way for people in Wales to quit smoking.  Click yma. for more support.

Everyone should aim for a well-balanced diet. Strict diets are hard to sustain long term and may not provide the balance of nutrients you need.

Healthy eating isn’t about cutting out or focusing on individual foods or nutrients. It’s thinking about your whole diet and eating a variety of foods in the right amounts to give your body what it needs.

There are foods we need to eat more of, like fruit and vegetables, and others we need to eat less of, which are foods high in saturated fat, sugar and salt. It’s all about getting the right balance.  Eating healthily can be tasty, simple and fun. It’s about making small, long-term changes and enjoying the food you eat. For more support click yma..

Prediabetes, sometimes called borderline diabetes, means your blood sugar levels are higher than they should be (42 mmol/mol to 47 mmol/mol). It is diagnosed by a blood test.

If you have prediabetes, you have a high risk of type 2 diabetes — which can bring serious health problems.  Click yma. for more information and support.

Have you noticed that you might be drinking more? You may be bored, lonely, frustrated, stressed, anxious or angry and using more alcohol as a result. More information and support can be found yma..

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term condition where the kidneys work less well than they should. This helpful guide from Kidney Care UK provides more information about CKD, its treatment and what to expect. Click yma. i gael rhagor o wybodaeth.

You can also click yma. to read how Think Kidneys continues to drive improvement in the care of people at risk of, or with, acute kidney injury.

If your last two diabetic eye screenings showed no sign of diabetic eye disease, you will now be safely screened every two years instead of every year. Everyone else will be screened as usual.  Click yma. i gael rhagor o wybodaeth.

Bowel Screening Wales expands screening programme to include 51-54 year olds.

As of  Wednesday 4^th October 2023, Bowel Screening Wales will start to invite people aged 51, 52, 53 and 54 for bowel cancer screening for the first time. It follows the lowering of the age from 60 to 58 in October 2021 and from 58 to 55 in October 2022.

The programme will be rolled out to the newly eligible age group gradually over the next 12 months.

Bowel cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer in Wales. Over 2,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year in Wales, and it results in over 900 deaths. Evidence shows that screening people at a younger age enables more bowel cancers to be picked up at an earlier stage, when treatment is likely to be more effective and survival chances improved.

The screening test used is the highly effective Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT), which is simple for people to use at home, requiring just one sample of poo.  The test looks for tiny traces of blood (haemoglobin) in the sample, which are too small to be seen but can be an indicator of bowel cancer and benign polyps. 

An invitation and test kit will be arriving via post to those who are eligible over the next 12 months. The home test kit is easy to complete and to send to the laboratory for analysis.

If you receive an invitation, please do take up the offer.  It could save your life. 

More information on Bowel Screening Wales can be found yma..

Click on the link yma. to view more information on the polio vaccination campaign.

The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales has published a new guide that provides crucial information about the rights that older people have when moving into and living in a care home. Click yma. to view the guide.