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Bowel Cancer: Screening

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 191086, tabled on 26 June 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to reduce the FIT screening for bowel cancer threshold from 120 ug/g to 20ug/g.

Answered on

29 June 2023

The Department and NHS England are working together to look at reducing the FIT screening threshold for Bowel cancer, including calculating the workforce capacity that would be needed.