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Flu vaccine urged to reduce the risk of serious illness for vulnerable people

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.

Cancer Patients Recover Faster with Cardiff's Prehab2Rehab Programme

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. 

New plan to prevent cardiovascular disease could mean more than 1000 fewer heart attacks and strokes in Wales, as well as millions in savings for the NHS

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.  

Public Health Wales modelling predicts an 11 per cent increase in cancer cases over the next decade

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.

Annual General Meeting - Wednesday 17 September 2025.

The Annual General Meeting of the Public Health Wales Board will be held on Wednesday 17 September 2025.

One in five people in Wales are making positive changes to reduce type 2 Diabetes risk

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. 

Registration now open: Welsh Public Health Conference 2025

This year’s Welsh Public Health Conference will be taking place on Wednesday 22 October in Glamorgan Cricket, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

Public Health Wales issues advice following burst water main in Flintshire
Creating healthier homes is key to supporting family wellbeing in Wales.

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. 

"World-leading" gonorrhoea vaccination programme rolled out in Wales as infection levels remain at historic high