Trust Primary Care Ltd (TPC) is proud to be working with West Yorkshire & Harrogate Cancer Alliance and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTHFT) on the national Lung Cancer Screening Programme. We are coordinating the general practice element of the programme, which is Lung Health Checks. Eligible patients are invited to have a Lung Health Check, with TPC working with the practices across Bradford District & Craven to ensure this is aligned to the time that the mobile CT scanner is in their area.

A lung health check is an appointment over the phone to determine if your lungs should be scanned by a CT scanner. Not everyone will need a lung scan. This will depend on your results from the initial assessment. Throughout the process you will have plenty of time to chat to the health professionals and ask any questions.

We know that lung cancer is the most common cancer in West Yorkshire. Lung cancer incidence is directly related to smoking and tobacco use is the most important preventable cause of lung cancer in England.

Across Bradford we are rolling out lung health checks and a mobile CT screening programme to detect lung cancer as early as possible. There are often no signs or symptoms of lung cancer at an early stage.

Lung health checks help find problems early (often before you notice anything is wrong) and at a stage when treatment could be simpler and more successful – ultimately saving more lives.  Most lung cancers grow slowly enough for them to be found at an early stage by a lung scan.

More information for practices and patients can be found on the Lung Health Checks website.

TPC and BTHFT will be working with The University of York on a research programme which supports patients to give up smoking. More information can be found here.

"Lung cancer rates are higher in Yorkshire than in the rest of the UK, but deaths from lung cancer can be prevented by screening, and a national screening programme has been recommended. Evidence shows that adding stop-smoking support to screening can increase the number of lives saved. Local stop smoking services offer support in different ways and we want to find out the best way to help people who want to stop or cut down their smoking. This study will compare three different ways of providing stop smoking support to people contacted by the Targeted Lung Health Check programme. This will allow us to test the acceptability, accessibility, effectiveness, and cost effectiveness of each of the methods of providing stop smoking support. The study starts in 2024 and will run for around 4 years."

Support to stop smoking can also be found locally from Living Well.