HSE Partner Pack Information – 28th March 2025
2nd April 2025
🛡️ Free bowel screening is now available to everyone aged 59 to 70
This change is part of the ongoing planned expansion of our bowel cancer screening programme.
Just one test can help reduce the risk of developing bowel cancer over your lifetime.
BowelScreen is a free test you do at home that can find signs of cancer before symptoms start and stop it developing. All it takes is 5 minutes. Take the opportunity to protect your health – get your test when you’re invited to take part.
Register for your free home-test kit
🌍 Visit: hse.ie/bowelscreen
🛡️ HSE urges pregnant women to get whooping cough vaccine
The HSE public information campaign is reminding pregnant women to protect themselves and their babies by getting the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine between 16 to 36 weeks of pregnancy. The vaccine is available free of charge from participating GPs and provides vital immunity for new born babies during their earliest and most vulnerable months of life.
🌍 Visit: www.immunisation.ie
🛡️Understanding the Link Between Smoking, HPV & Cervical Cancer
Smoking increases the risk of an active HPV infection, which can lead to cervical cancer.
To support women referred to colposcopy clinics through CervicalCheck, new resources are now available to explain these risks and the benefits of quitting. The HSE QUIT team is also introducing e-referrals so clinics can easily connect patients with quit-smoking support.
HSE QUIT services are free and offer personalised support, including Nicotine Replacement Therapy (patches, gum, sprays).
🌍 Visit: https://www2.hse.ie/living-well/quit-smoking/
🛡️ COVID-19 – For information and advice:
🌍 Visit: https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/covid19/ and https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/
Clinical and professional guidance relating to COVID-19 is available on www.hpsc.ie