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However, he is concerned about wait times for surveillance screening for patients who had possible indications of bowel cancer and needed to be checked regularly. While not a dramatic increase there had been an increase in waiting times for people who in the past had indication of possible bowel cancer but who are had shown up negative but who needed to be kept under surveillance. “. and delays in getting that testing done has been at a level that’s not acceptable. There is work under way to improve that. But in terms of the other measures for those services, the Southern DHB is more or less meeting the target times and the target volumes expected for that population,” Little said. ....
JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF Canterbury health workers have celebrated the launch of the region s free bowel screening programme - part of a national effort to reduce bowel cancer deaths. Some southern doctors have welcomed extra funding for the bowel cancer screening, but say it needs to come with extra funding to deliver the services that go along with it. The Government has announced that $13 million will be set aside in the 2021 Budget to complete the rollout of the National Bowel Screening Programme to the remaining six district health boards. The doctors supported more screening but warned that the programme wasn’t fully developed yet and that it shouldn t be offered at the expense of patients who were struggling to get onto colonoscopy waiting lists. ....
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. ....