Bowel Cancer: Screening

(asked on 7th December 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 12th December 2023

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

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