How hair and beauty salons in the Humber region are helping to give cervical cancer the chop [Video]

Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance is training the region’s hair and beauty salon staff to encourage their customers to attend their cervical cancer screening appointments, and educate them about the symptoms of the disease, during January’s Cervical Cancer Awareness Month.

The Cancer Alliance has offered a free training course to salons in low screening take-up areas in Humber and North Yorkshire. This training is designed to equip the staff with the skills to have conversations about cervical cancer with their customers.

By taking part, salon owners and their staff can break down the barriers that may stop one of their customers from booking a screening appointment. In addition to the training, members of the Cancer Alliance spent the run-up to Christmas providing salon managers and staff in the lowest screening take-up areas – Hull, Goole, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Scarborough – with posters and stickers, to help customers learn more about …