From this month ladies between 47 – 49 years will be offered breast screening on the Island as part of the National Beast-Screening Programme. The Isle of Wight Breast Screening Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital is the first centre within the South Central (West) region to reduce the age limit of inviting ladies for breast screening…

Isle of Wight NHS is supporting a national campaign ‘Dying Matters Awareness Week’ to encourage people to talk openly about bereavement…

Sailing is one of very few sports in which having a physical disability does not have to be a disadvantage. The Even Keel Project is offering able bodied and disabled enthusiasts on the Isle of Wight, the opportunity to participate together in a sailing activity that would normally be outside their reach…

Do you want £15 for your views on Island health, eating and lifestyle? A social marketing and communications company are holding focus groups this week across the Island for people aged 45-65…

NHS Isle of Wight and Chamber Health will be supporting smokers across the Island to break free and quit smoking for good on No Smoking Day – Wednesday 10th March 2010. The Chamber Health mobile unit will be in St Thomas’ Square, Newport, and Local NHS Stop Smoking Service will have a display outside St Mary’s, Full Circle Restaurant…

Save Vitamins: Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, recently joined celebrity actress Jenny Seagrove and Totland resident Chris Whitehouse to urge the Prime Minister to block a bid by the EU to ban thousands of vitamin & mineral food supplements, used safely in the UK for decades…

According to a Department Survey in 2009, more patients are satisfied overall with their experience of the Outpatients Department at St. Mary’s Hospital…

Up to 40,000 patients a year can now benefit from free unlimited calls to their friends and family thanks to the launch of new entertainment packages for patients in St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight…