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Inquiry into Southern DHB s admission to bowel screening programme unnecessary - Ministry

An inquiry into the Southern District Health Board's admission to the national bowel screening programme will be a distraction, the Ministry of Health says.

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Plea for government to lower bowel screening age to 45

The government is being told to lower the age for the bowel cancer screening programme to 45.

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Patients waiting too long for cancer diagnoses under Covid-19 restrictions - doctor

Patients waiting too long for cancer diagnoses under Covid-19 restrictions - doctor
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Corners cut in national bowel screening programme, doctor says

Samples of a colon biopsy to be sent to a laboratory. Photo: A. BENOIST / BSIP A scathing article in the New Zealand Medical Journal a fortnight ago accused the Ministry of Health of allowing the DHB into the national bowel screening programme before it was ready. Its authors, Professor Brian Cox and Dr Phil Bagshaw, claimed lives had been lost or shortened as a result of Southern DHB being unable to meet the existing need for colonoscopies when it joined the programme in 2018. They said patients on the programme got priority over those already suffering cancer symptoms. The pair now want a public inquiry, similar to that of the Cartwright Inquiry in the late 1980s.

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