PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bowel Cancer: Screening (20 February 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made towards full roll-out of the bowel scope screening programme by the end of 2016.
Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)
Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)
Answer
As at the end of December 2014, 25,828 bowel scope screening (BSS) procedures had been performed and 1,154 people had been referred to colonoscopy following BSS, with 25 cancers detected. A further 370 people were identified with low risk polyps.
As set out in the fourth annual report of Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer (December 2014), NHS England are working with Public Health England to help deliver the involvement of screening centres sufficient to meet the 60% commitment by March 2015 and to support preparatory steps in other screening centres to implement by the end of 2016.
Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
25 February 2015
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