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Cervical
Screening Leaflets |
To encourage women aged 20–60 to
take up their free, quick, cervical screening test every three years, NHS Health
Scotland has produced new leaflets to screening to explain what’s involved and
address reasons why women may not be coming forward. The
four leaflets: The Cervical Screening Test: Put it on your list (sent with screening
invitation); The Cervical Screening Test: Your First Test (for those invited for
the first time); The Cervical Screening Test: Information for Lesbian and Bisexual
Women (to address specific questions considered by lesbian and bisexual women);
and The Cervical Screening Test: Your Results Explained (sent with screening results
and designed to explain test results and what to expect as follow up). The
leaflets can be viewed by clicking here.
Remember,
Cervical Screening helps save lives. |
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HPV
Immunisation - Year 3 |
Year 3 of the anti-cancer immunisation
programme offered to all girls in S2 (aged 12-13) will take place from August
2010 onwards. The vaccine
which protects girls against two strains of HPV that cause around 70 per cent
of cervical cancers, will be provided in the new school year. Year
3 of the programme is the final year of the catch up campaign. If you were aged
13 to under 18 years in September 2008 and have not received your vaccination
or have not completed the course of 3 injections please contact your local Health
Visiting team or to arrange for vaccination. For
further information please contact Sara
Bartram, Acting Immunisation
and Screening Coordinator, tel. 01851 860667, Isabel
MacInnes, Public Health Nurse, tel. 01870 602266, or Sheila
MacLeod, Community Secretary, tel. 01851 702545. |
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Date added: 8th
July 2010 |
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HPV
Immunisation - Year 2 |
Year 2 of the anti-cancer
immunisation programme offered to all girls in S2 (aged 12-13) will take place
from August 2009 onwards. The
vaccine which protects girls against two strains of HPV that cause around 70 per
cent of cervical cancers, will be given in the new school year. It will also be
offered to those aged 16-17 who are elligible for the 'catch up' programme.
For further information please contact Sara
Bartram, Public Health Practitioner.
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Date added: 8th
July 2009 |
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Bowel Cancer Awareness
Month | To
raise the awareness of Bowel Cancer and promote the national Bowel screening programme,
Health Promotion, in partnership with Macmillan Nurses, co-ordinated drop-in sessions
to access useful information and advice.
For further
information please contact Kenna Campbell,
Senior Health Promotion Officer.
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added: 8th July 2009 |
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Sunsmart
Campaign in Schools |
During the month of June, schools
in Uist and Barra benefited from useful lessons on how to keep safe in the sun.
This was delivered in
partnership with Health Promotion, Public Health Nurse (schools), and Macmillan
Nurses. For further
information please contact Kenna Campbell,
Senior Health Promotion Officer
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Date added: 22nd
June 2009 |
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Cancer in the Workplace
DVD and booklet | Macmillan
Cancer Care and The Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives have produced a
DVD and a booklet to help employers to better support workers with a cancer diagnosis
and to meet their legal obligations. To
download the 'Cancer in the Workplace' booklet simply click here.
A dvd is also available. For further information please contact Norma
MacLeod, Healthy Working Lives Coordinator |
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Date added: 22nd
June 2009 |
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