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Guidance

Bowel cancer screening: easy guides

Leaflets about bowel cancer screening, developed by and for people with learning disabilities.

Updates to this page

From:
NHS England
Published:
1 November 2008
Last updated:
15 December 2025
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  1. Added bowel screening test kit easy guide and easy read pre-invitation template as attachments.

  2. Amended easy read guide (first box on p3) to reflect changes to bowel eligibility, plus minor changes to end matter, updating URLs, etc.

  3. Changed content type to guidance. Removed PHE publications gateway number.

  4. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  5. Added easy read bowel cancer screening invitation letter template.

  6. Updated document in partnership with service user experts.

  7. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

An easy guide to bowel cancer screening

PDF, 2.56 MB, 16 pages

An easy read guide to using the bowel screening test kit

PDF, 406 KB, 2 pages

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Details

Healthcare professionals, family and carers can use the easy guide leaflet to explain bowel cancer screening to people with learning disabilities.

They can also use the bowel screening test kit easy guide to explain how to use the test kit.

Providers can also direct people who cannot read or do not like written words to the Beyond Words bowel cancer screening picture story, which includes a suggested storyline for family members, carers or health professionals to refer to.

Bowel cancer screening providers can find easy read screening invitation letter templates in the bowel screening accessible format letter content.

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