Guidance

Bowel cancer screening: out of area screening

Guidance on managing people who wish to attend an alternative screening centre to the one the programme invites them to attend.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

This guidance provides information on managing requests for ‘out of area’ screening (follow up after the faecal immunochemical test (FIT)). It also includes guidance on:

  • people wishing to move to private healthcare services
  • people at very high risk of bowel cancer wishing to attend a hospital where they are currently having care or surveillance

Contact the PHE Screening helpdesk with any queries about this publication, making sure you include its full title.

Published 28 September 2021