Published on 22 August 2025
A trailblazing local mobile health service has recently provided its 1,000th cervical screening as part of a programme aiming to reduce health inequalities in our region.
The Living Well Service, provided by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP), covers the whole of Cheshire and Merseyside. Utilising three specially designed buses, it operates on a fully drop-in basis and has been providing routine UK immunisations, health checks, and mental wellbeing support at the heart of our communities since 2022.
Since July last year, it has also been providing cervical screening – a test to check the health of the cervix and to help prevent cervical cancer – offered to women and people with a cervix aged 25 to 64.
Initially, the team only provided this in Sefton as part of an initial pilot programme but was then rolled out in Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley, Crewe, and Halton as part of phase two of the programme. Now, the team are providing screenings in Liverpool, Wirral, Warrington, Cheshire East and Ellesmere Port until the end of September as part of phase three.
Geraldine Marsh, CWP Operations Manager – Vaccination and Living Well Service, said: “Our service has always prided itself on its dynamism and adaptability, being able respond to the demand of the local health system to help local people. Our compassionate, caring team are ready and willing to do whatever they can to improve access to health services. It was with this in mind that we welcomed the challenge of providing cervical screening in July 2024.
“Since then, this aspect of our service has grown from strength-to-strength, and it was enormously gratifying to see our 1,000th patient attend for their screening recently. Milestone figures were never our aim but it’s still a great achievement for the team.
“It is a huge testament to the work of the team to make our service as welcoming, compassionate and, above all, as safe as it can possibly be. We look forward to welcoming more people coming to have their screening and gaining peace of mind.”
Upcoming dates of cervical screening clinics being held by the service are available on the Living Well Service page.