BOWEL Cancer Screening

The video explains key elements of the screening programme, including:   

· Who is invited for bowel screening  

· The importance of screening in the early detection of bowel cancer 

· How the screen is undertaken and how often 

· Details of the FIT kit, the at-home stool test patients complete and return 

· How primary care staff can encourage their patients to participate in screening 

· Where to access further information and resources about bowel screening 

· The aim is to provide non-clinical primary care staff, including social prescriber/link workers, with helpful prompts and guidance they can use when speaking to patients about bowel screening. 

The video is available here: https://youtu.be/4qOqIifRZy8

New Patient Information Leaflets for Suspected Cancer Patient Referrals  

Urgent Suspected Cancer Patient information leaflets for GPs in Primary Care

• Arabic patient information for urgent referrals
• Bengali patient information for urgent referrals
• Chinese patient information for urgent referrals simplified
• Chinese patient information for urgent referrals traditional
• English patient information for urgent referrals
• Gujarati patient information for urgent referrals
• Hindi patient information for urgent referrals
• Polish patient information for urgent referrals
• Punjabi patient information for urgent referrals
• Somali patient information for urgent referrals
• Turkish patient information for urgent referrals
• Urdu patient information for urgent referrals

Urgent Suspected Cancer Patient Information Leaflets for Dentists and Optometrists in Primary Care

• Arabic patient information for urgent referrals
• Bengali patient information for urgent referrals
• Chinese patient information for urgent referrals simplified
• Chinese patient information for urgent referrals traditional
• English patient information for urgent referrals
• Gujarati patient information for urgent referrals
• Hindi patient information for urgent referrals
• Polish patient information for urgent referrals
• Punjabi patient information for urgent referrals
• Somali patient information for urgent referrals
• Turkish patient information for urgent referrals
• Urdu patient information for urgent referrals

Urgent referrals: tumour-specific suspected breast and colorectal

• PanLondon Colorectal patient information for urgent referrals
• Pan London Breast patient information for urgent referrals.

Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) for symptomatic patients

The FIT patient information leaflet has been developed by the Transforming Cancer Services Team in collaboration with patient representatives.  The leaflet should be given to symptomatic patients who have been asked to complete a FIT because of a suspicion of cancer, and is available in 11 of the most common spoken languages in London:

• Arabic patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• English patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Bengali patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Chinese (Simplified) patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Gujarati patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Hindi patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Polish patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Punjabi (India) patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Somali patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Turkish patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients
• Urdu (Pakistan) patient information Leaflet for FIT for symptomatic patients.

For full information, please check the Healthy London website