Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to reduce the minimum age for bowel screening to 50.
NHS England started the lowering of age for bowel cancer screening in April 2021. The following table shows the rollout plan for the bowel screening, keeping in mind that the timeline may differ slightly from region to region:
Cohort age at first invitation | Year invitations start |
56 years old | 2021/22 |
58 years old | 2022/23 |
54 years old | 2023/24 |
50 and 52 years old | 2024/25 |