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Bowel Cancer Screening

Checked: 23-11-2023 by Sandi Littler Next Review: 23-11-2025

Bowel Cancer Screening

Reasonable adjustments are a legal requirement under the Equality Act (2010) – read more about reasonable adjustments in cancer ccreening.

If you need support or advice and guidance about supporting a patient with a learning disability, contact the Adult Learning Disability Health Service on 0300 124 5888 or sirona.bcldtadviceline@nhs.net

You can also view the population screening timeline poster with contact details for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

Bowel Cancer Screening leaflets are available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Urdu.

This leaflet is also available in an Easy Read format.

Video link on How to Use the Bowel Screening Kit

Click here for information on the bowel cancer screening programme (including commissioning, quality assurance, education and training) published by Public Health England.

The following options are available to GPs to arrange screening for eligible patients who have not responded to the invitation to be screening. These options should only be considered where a patient has not responded and participated in Bowel Screening and has given consent to be sent a new kit.

Family History of Colorectal Cancer

Please see the Family History of Colorectal Cancer page.

Easy Read

Bowel Cancer Screening: Having a Colonoscopy

Bowel Cancer Screening: Having a CTC Scan

Bowel Cancer Screening Saves Lives

Bowel Cancer Screening: An Easy Guide

Somali easy read guide for Bowel Cancer Screening

Resources

Bowel cancer screening resources - Transformation Partners in Health and Care

This link is for a directory of cancer screening resources providing information, advice and guidance for health and social care professionals and people in caring and supporting roles, to aid conversation with their patients and service-users.

Resources are divided into four sub-sections as follows:

Programme-specific screening information for health and social care professionals
Programme-specific screening information for patients and service-users
General screening information for health and social care professionals
Other useful screening information and resources for patients and service-users

(Developed in partnership with the NHS North Central London Cancer Alliance and the NHS England (London) Cancer Screening Commissioning Team)

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