Public Health Wales is urging people with long-term health conditions to take up their flu vaccination this winter to help protect them from serious illness.
A new report has found that cancer patients who take part in a programme to prepare them for surgery, spend on average three fewer days in hospital.
Identifying and treating up to 70,000 more people in Wales who have high blood pressure will prevent more than 1,000 heart attacks and strokes and save nearly £18m for the NHS and social care sector in Wales over three years.
New modelling from Public Health Wales projects that there will be around 24,000 new cancer cases* in Wales identified in 2035, a projected increase of 11 per cent from 2025.
The Annual General Meeting of the Public Health Wales Board will be held on Wednesday 17 September 2025.
A new survey has found that one in five people in Wales, who have never been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, have made positive changes to their behaviour in the past year to cut their risk of developing the condition.
This year’s Welsh Public Health Conference will be taking place on Wednesday 22 October in Glamorgan Cricket, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
Public Health Wales is highlighting opportunities for closer collaboration between the health and housing sectors, to help ensure all families in Wales can live in homes that protect and promote their health and well-being.
