Bowel Cancer: Screening
(asked on 25th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to implement the recommendation of the UK National Screening Committee to provide faecal-immunochemical test screening for bowel cancer every two years for people aged between 50 and 74.
This question was answered on 3rd May 2023
The National Health Service is committed to extending the bowel screening programme and have set a timeline for this extension, which is detailed in the table below.
Cohort age at first invitation | Year invitations start |
Age 56 years old | 2021/22 |
Age 58 years old | 2022/23 |
Age 54 years old | 2023/24 |
Age 50 and 52 years old | 2024/25 |