14 Mar 2025

Brown rejects officials advice to lower bowel screening age

From Checkpoint, 5:19 pm on 14 March 2025

Health Minister Simeon Brown rejected advice from health officials to lower the bowel screening age to 58 for the general population and 56 for Maori and Pacific people. According to projections that means 111 fewer prevented deaths from the disease for Maori and Pacific people. Jimmy Ellingham reports.