Bowel Screening
Brown rejects officials advice to lower bowel screening age
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… Audio
Bowel screening age to drop from 58 to 60
Sacrificing Peter to pay Paul, institutional racism, disappointing, light on detail. These are some of the reactions to Health Minister Simeon Brown's announcement that the bowel screening age in New… Audio
Inquiry into Southern DHB bowel screening a 'distraction'
The Ministry of Health is shunning calls for an inquiry into the Southern DHB's inclusion in the national bowel screening programme. Doctors, researchers and cancer-care campaigners are calling for an… Audio
Hawke's Bay's Pasifika community urged to get bowel checks
Health officials in Hawke's Bay are trying to curb the high rate of bowel cancer deaths among Pasifika people by encouraging them to take the national bowel screening test when they get one in the… Audio
Lives being saved already by bowel screening
About eight lives have already been saved in Hutt Valley and Wairarapa by bowel screening, according to experts.
Bowel screening review head appointed
The dean of the Victoria University health faculty, Gregor Coster, will lead the review.
Health officials apologise over bowel-screening botch-up
Health officials are promising that a botch-up in a key bowel-screening programme won't be repeated.
Concern over proposed bowel cancer screening programme
A leading public health expert says the delay of the national bowel cancer screening programme is an opportunity to dump what he calls a flawed system that won't stop anyone developing the disease. Audio
