Improving bowel cancer screening participation

To support the bowel cancer screening programme age extension, we are working with Community Links to call newly invited people to participate in the programme. The phone calls are made about three months before their invitation is sent and is designed to relay the importance of bowel cancer screening, and how to use the FIT kit. Trained health facilitators are recruited from local communities who can speak in the patient’s preferred language, allowing them to build trust with individuals and encourage them to act on the advice provided.

First timer phone calls 

Adam’s first bowel cancer screening