19th April, 2006
The Department of Health issued the following statement:
The National
Bowel Cancer Screening Programme will be rolled out nationally
over the next three years. Funding for the first year of the
screening programme is being transferred to the National Cancer
Screening Team in Sheffield, and Wolverhampton will be the
first local screening centre.
We can
confirm that the necessary funding will be made available
to the National Screening Centre to ensure that the programme
is fully rolled out by 2009.We estimate that around £10m
will be spent on the first stages of the National Bowel Cancer
Screening Programme.
We have
always intended to have a three year phased roll out of this
substantial new national programme. You cannot put an entire
screening programme in place in a single year, let alone a
single day. We said that the whole population would be covered
by 2009 and this is what will happen.
We have
taken all the practical steps possible to prepare for the
roll-out of the programme and minimise the delay. We anticipate
a slightly later start than originally intended, with the
programme back in line with the schedule from September.
We intend
that all five programme hubs will be established and around
14 local screening centres will be operating by Spring 2007
(out of a total of 90 to 100 for full national coverage.)
This is a three year phased roll-out and should be completed
by December 2009, as planned.
This is
an ambitious project, and the bowel cancer screening programme
is one of the first of its kind in Europe.
For the
latest information on bowel cancer screening, visit the Cancer
Screening Programmes website.
Department
of Health Summary
Beating
Bowel Cancer's "Background to Screening Outline"
(for Health Professionals)
 UK
CRC Screening Pilot Evaluation Team - Final Report
UK
CRC Screening Pilot Evaluation Team - Ethnicity - Final Report
UK
Flexible Sigmoidscopy Trial - Study Rationale and Early Findings
(Dr Wendy Atkin)
Beating
Bowel Cancer is working with a number of stakeholders and
will post the latest information on the screening programme
on this website, as we receive it.
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