Cervical Cancer Screening
Women aged between 25-49 need a cervical smear test every 3 years.
Women aged between 50-64 need a cervical smear test every 5 years.
These tests are vitally important in the early detection of cervical cancer, we strongly urge anyone who is within these age groups and has not had a cervical smear test carried out, to book an appointment with our practice nurse.
Cervical screening checks the health of your cervix and helps find any abnormal changes before they can turn into cancer. It is not a test for cancer, it is a test to help prevent cancer. Cervical screening checks a sample of cells from your cervix for certain types of human Papillomavirus (HPV).
Prostate Cancer Screening
We know some men are at higher risk of prostate cancer. You can check your risk by using Prostate Cancer UK's risk checker:
Prostate cancer risk checker
If after checking, you want to book a PSA blood test, then please contact by completing the online form on the home page of the website.
Bowel Cancer
NHS bowel cancer screening checks if you could have bowel cancer. It is available to everyone aged 60 to 74 years.
The programme started to expand in April 2021 to make it available to everyone aged 50 to 59 years, this is happening gradually over 4 years.
You use a home test kit, called a faecal immunochemical test (FIT), to collect a small sample of poo and send it to a lab. This is checked for tiny amounts of blood.
Blood can be a sign of polyps of bowel cancer. Polyps are growth in the bowel. They are not cancer but may turn into cancer over time.
If the test finds anything unusual, you might be asked to go to the hospital to have further tests to confirm or rule out cancer.
Videos on how to use the bowel cancer screening test kit.
Subtitles are available in English, as well as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Farsi, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi and Urdu. A British Sign Language version is also available.
Breast Cancer Screening
Anyone can get breast cancer. This includes women, men, trans and non-binary people. It is the most common type of cancer in the UK. The chance of getting breast cancer increases when you get older. Most breast cancers are diagnosed in women over 50 years old.
Anyone registered with a GP as female will be invited for NHS breast screening every 3 years between the ages of 50 and 71. You will automatically get your first invite for breast screening between the ages of 50-53. Then you will be invited every 3 years until you turn 71.
If you are a trans man, trans woman, or are non-binary you may be invited automatically or you may need to talk to the local breast screening service to ask for an appointment.
If you are 71 or over, you will not automatically be invited for breast screening, but you can still have breast screening every 3 years if you want to. You need to call your local breast screening service to ask for an appointment.
An Easy Read Guide to breast cancer screening (EXTERNAL PDF LINK).