questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the capacity of colonoscopy services; and whether his Department plans to increase the capacity of these services ahead of the extension of the bowel cancer screening programme to people aged 50 and above by April 2025.
answerText: NHS England is responsible for delivering the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening programme and planning for the age extension in the programme from 60 years old down to 50 years old.The age extension for bowel screening started in April 2021 with the 56-year-old ...
heading: Colonoscopy: Older People