Bowel cancer screening: professional guidance
Standards and guidance for health professionals, managers and commissioners working in the NHS bowel cancer screening programme.
Programme pathway
Provide screening
Post-polypectomy and post-colorectal cancer resection surveillance guidelines are available on the .
Quality assurance
Guidance on is available from the Bowel Cancer Screener Accreditation (BCSA) website.
Training
Data and research
Updates to this page
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Added Bowel Cancer Screening: Annual Report 2021 to 2022 link to the document collection to the data and research section
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New guidance added for bowel cancer screening consent and ceasing.
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Addition of NHS bowel cancer screening: identifying and reducing inequalities to collection
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Removed reference to bowel scope endoscopist accreditation under 'Quality assurance', as bowel scope is no longer part of the screening programme.
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First published.