{"id":751881,"date":"2026-08-27T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751881\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:12:10","slug":"west-midlands-bus-tour-to-help-people-spot-cancer-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751881\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands bus tour to help people spot cancer symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A double-decker bus will travel around the West Midlands next month in a scheme to help people spot the early signs and symptoms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/cancer\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cancer, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service will provide health checks and important screening information about the disease, the NHS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Early diagnosis of cancer is vital. Detecting a problem early on can mean that treatment is more effective&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the public can first visit the facility in Birmingham on 8 September.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghamsolihull.icb.nhs.uk\/health-information\/cancer-and-diagnostics\/cancer-bus-tour\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> The bus will then travel to other locations in September, external<\/a>, such as Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cancer experts will travel to the locations, and visitors can attend between 09:30 BST and 15:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service aimed to give communities the opportunity to catch any warning signs of cancer as early as possible, NHS Birmingham and Solihull said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bus tour will give people a chance to talk to a number of professionals, from the NHS to charities Macmillan Cancer Support and Diabetes UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS staff and its partners will share signs to look out for, how to live the healthiest possible life and signpost people to useful services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A double-decker bus will travel around the West Midlands next month in a scheme to help people spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}