Category Public health

Cervical screening (smear tests) helps prevent cervical cancer by identifying HPV and changes to cells before they can develop into cancer.

For those patients that are parents or carers of children and young people that have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and require support, please direct them to the Local Offer.

Patients who use injectable medicines or other sharps at home will require safe and appropriate disposal arrangements for used needles, syringes, lancets, pen needles and sharps bins.

The PURSUIT study team in Applied Health Research at University of Birmingham is seeking primary healthcare professionals (nurses, pharmacists, ACPs and HCAs) to take part in a qualitative interview examining facilitators and barriers to identifying work-related asthma.

Hosted by the Walsall Safeguarding Partnership, this workshop taking place on 6 November, 1pm - 2pm , explores the implications of the new statutory Information Sharing Duty and what it means for multi-agency safeguarding practice across Walsall from September 2026.

The Kent and Medway Safeguarding Adults Board (KMSAB) would like to highlight that spaces are available for the following upcoming KMSAB Open Session: Safeguarding Adults Review (SAR) 'Yared' on Tuesday 8 December, 6pm - 7.15pm , involving multiple Safeguarding Adults Boards.

Please see an updated document which outlines all of the national and local child death bereavement charities and their contact information, for supporting grieving families.

Please be aware of the free services for adult patients who have been diagnosed with or are waiting for a diagnosis of autism, or are parents/carers of children with autism.

The new pilot WellPath project is a collaborative vision for Health Equity from the NHS, partnering with Resources for Autism , Ways For Wellbeing UK CIC and Kapella .

The Survey of Carers is a new pilot survey being run by researchers at the University of Birmingham, in collaboration with the Centre for Care, aimed at giving carers the chance to tell the Government what would make the biggest difference to their life.