If you have a cough that won’t go away, feel out of breath and more tired than normal or have lost weight but don’t know why see your doctor straight away as it could be the early signs of lung cancer. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and the aim of this year’s campaign is to raise awareness about the importance of early detection – it really can save your life.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as the Island approaches ‘wear it pink’ day on 31st October the Island’s NHS is urging women over 50 who have not taken up their routine screening appointment to get in touch.
Around 9,000 screening invitations are sent out each year to Island women aged between 50 and 70, [...]

A useful piece of equipment used to diagnose and assess tumours has been donated to the Urology Department at St Mary’s Hospital by a leading cancer support group. The bladder scanner cost in excess of £6,000 and was funded by PCaSO, a Prostate Cancer Network…

The National Health Service (NHS) on the Isle of Wight has welcomed a new national initiative which aims to reduce the number of overweight and obese people. National figures published this week show that diseases related to being overweight or obese are estimated to cost the NHS on the Isle of Wight £41•9 million in 2007…

Supporting people with mental health problems to return to and remain in work is the theme of a special conference in Cowes on 9th October 2008. The event has been arranged to take place as close as possible to World Mental Health Day on 10th October…

This is Fraud Awareness Month, posters and leaflets highlighting the damaging effects of fraud against the National Health Service (NHS) are being distributed across the Isle of Wight…

Two members of the Island’s top performing Ambulance Service have become the first to graduate from a new foundation degree programme. The first two students to qualify after taking the three-year course are Hilary Tomlinson and Fiona Parrott…

The Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust’s IT Training Department have made it through to the final stage of the British Computer Society IT Industry Awards 2008 in the Public Sector Organisation of the Year category…