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Southern cancer screening still not in the clear Newsroom 2 days ago © Provided by Newsroom Despite a public apology and promises to do better, it’s still better to live in Dunedin than Invercargill when it comes to colonoscopies. David Williams reports On its face, the Southern District Health Board is improving its much-maligned colonoscopy service. Demand for the procedure, the primary method for diagnosing bowel cancer in a timely way, has increased since the national screening programme started. Southern DHB joined in April 2018 – controversially, as it turns out, with three external reviews painting a terrible picture of delays and wrongful rejections of colonoscopy referrals which, in some cases, led to people dying of cancer before they should have.

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