{"id":222168,"date":"2025-06-28T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222168\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:08:09","slug":"lung-cancer-screening-for-smokers-and-former-smokers-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/222168\/","title":{"rendered":"Lung cancer screening for smokers and former smokers in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; Health Secretary Jeremy Miles said the lung cancer screening programme would use mobile CT scanners and include support to help people quit smoking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As of 2022, around 340,000 people in Wales &#8211; 14.1% of the overall population &#8211; smoked cigarettes, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/healthandsocialcare\/healthandlifeexpectancies\/bulletins\/adultsmokinghabitsingreatbritain\/2022#:~:text=In%20the%20UK%20in%202022%2C%20England%20had%20the%20lowest%20proportion,%25%20(around%20590%2C000%20people).\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ONS, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miles said the screening programme&#8217;s implementation would take place in three stages to help the NHS scale up its capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it would also include protocols for detecting conditions such as COPD, adding that the full screening programme would cost around \u00a313m a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A similar lung cancer screening programme, targeting former and current smokers aged 55-74, is expected to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/tests-and-treatments\/lung-cancer-screening\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fully rolled out in England by 2029., external<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; Health Secretary Jeremy Miles said the lung cancer screening programme would use mobile CT scanners and include&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-222168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114762803075913288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}