Bowel Cancer: Screening
(asked on 8th September 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 made a recent assessment of the potential merits of reducing the minimum age for bowel cancer screening.
This question was answered on 13th September 2023
A recent assessment of reducing the minimum age for bowel cancer screening has been made, and since April 2021 NHS England have gradually reduced the age for screening towards 50 as recommended by the UK National Screening Committee. Inclusion of people aged from 50 to 59 is being phased in over four years. 2024/25 should see the age extension reach 50-year-olds.