Rolling out the new bowel cancer test kit via video
Bowel cancer testing made easier
Special guest blog for bowel cancer awareness month
This Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, Bowel Cancer UK is highlighting how the charity supports the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my first few months as national bowel cancer screening programme manager
Karen Emery-Downing reflects on her first few months as national programme manager of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
We need more clinical endoscopists in bowel cancer screening
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Nurse endoscopists already undertake as much of 20% of the workload in an endoscopy unit. NHS Improving Quality initiatives have estimated clinical endoscopists could carry out up to 40% of low risk, high volume endoscopic procedures.
New home test kit for bowel cancer screening: what GPs need to know
The programme will introduce a new improved home test kit for screening from April 2018. It is call a faecal immunochemical test (FIT) and it will replace the guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBt). It’s important that GPs and others working in primary care understand this change to the screening programme and its implications for their patients, so here is a brief summary.
GPs can help patients engage with bowel cancer screening
Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and the second leading cause of cancer deaths.
We're getting FIT for bowel cancer screening
10 years on from the launch of the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) we're gearing up to change the primary screening test we use to detect and prevent cancers.