Bowel Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 46403 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 29 Apr 2025
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...