Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 46403

Bowel Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 17 April 2025

Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of colonoscopy capacity for providing the bowel cancer screening programme.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

NHS England is assessing the potential impact of reducing the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g. This is an ongoing assessment which includes evaluating and learning from early adopt...

ⓘ

This is an extract from the Parliament API. Search the full answer on Parliament.uk (UIN 46403) →