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News & Events

04 January 2010

Welsh screening unit offers improved access for disabled women.

Breast Test Wales has today launched a new mobile breast screening unit which offers wheelchair access. [read more...]

November 2009

01 October 2009

Public Health Wales goes live.

From Thursday 1 October, responsibility for the functions and services of Breast Test Wales has been taken on by the new NHS Trust, Public Health Wales.

Services provided by the Congenital Anomaly Register and Information Service (CARIS), the NPHS, Screening Services, the Wales Centre for Health and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU) will remain unchanged. So will the names and contact details for each of these services.

Further detail about the change and plans for the future can be found on the Public Health Wales website:

nww.publichealthwales.wales.nhs.uk (intranet)
www.publichealthwales.org (internet)

November 2007

'About Your Breast Screening / About Your Cervical Smear Test' DVD released.

The two 10-minute programmes explain the facts of having a breast screening test and a cervical smear test, in the words of real women and NHS staff. To order via email please use the Word file version below.