Update

June 2010

1 in 5 people in Wales has a lung condition.

We're here for every one of them.

Lung testing across Wales

We've been holding lung testing events across Wales in venues such as shopping centres. The latest events took place in Cwmbran, Bangor and Port Talbot, with one lined up shortly for Aberystwyth. The lung tests are aimed at highlighting lung health, and identifying people who may have below-average lung capacity so they can be referred to their GP.Read the Western Mail coverage of our lung testing work.

Mr Hennigan of Rhyl having his lungs tested by Donna Bailey of Glan Clwyd hospital respiratory team.

Helpline is a lifeline....

The BLF Helpline receives more calls from Wales, proportionate to population, than any other part of the UK, according to recent figures. The Helpline team includes trained respiratory nurses and other advisers who can give information and support to people with lung conditions and their carers. They can advise on everything from managing a lung condition to benefits and travel insurance.

The Helpline now also offers an online booking service - book a call with an adviser and they call you back within 2 hours.

BLF Helpline 08458 50 50 20

More about the Helpline

Breathe Easy Week - Children's Charter

We held our annual Meet the Patients event for Assembly Members on 16 June, calling for better pulmonary rehab services, and launching our children's charter . The Charter calls for more focus on children's lung health. Sign our petition calling for a ban on smoking in cars carrying children. Across Wales, Breathe Easy groups held events to highlight lung conditions, marking Breathe Easy Week.

Climb, jump, abseil - all for BLF Wales Neath Valley abseil

Thanks to Neath Valley Breathe Easy group for raising over £6000 in this year's abseil, taking their total raised for BLF Wales over 4 years to an astonishing £21,000.

Thanks too to Chris Brayshay and friends, who climbed all 15 Welsh peaks over 3000 feet in 24 hours, and to Owain Rowlands who climbed Kilimanjaro. The Millington family in Holywell have done a parachute jump. To everyone raising funds to support our work - thanks a million! BLF Wales Just Giving page

Do you want to be added to the mailing list for Update? Call us or email us - details below.

New base for BLF Wales

We're contacting you to tell you our new details, as we've just moved office. Our address is:

British Lung Foundation Wales

6a Prospect Place

Swansea

SA1 1QP

Telephone: 01792 455764

Email: wales@blf-uk.org

New e-bulletin "Update"

We've just launched "Update" as a way of keeping you in touch with what we're doing. It'll give you our news in brief, with links to detail if you need it. We hope you find it useful. If you'd rather not receive it, just let us know.

BLF manifesto - Nine ways the new UK government can make a difference.

Increase in lung cancer - BLF Wales presses for more focus on Wales's biggest cancer killer

Sleep apnoea - BLF Wales calls for better sleep services across Wales

Read more on our latest work at BLF Wales news

Kinmel Bay helps others breathe easy

Kinmel Bay Breathe Easy group raised money for four travel nebulisers for lung patients at Glan Clwyd hospital. These mean patients can go on holiday as they can take their medicine with them.

50%

reduction in length of hospital stay for patients who have had pulmonary rehab, research shows

British Lung Foundation Wales wales@blf-uk.org

01792 455764 www.lunguk.org/wales

Registered charity number 326730