Free bowel screening is available throughout the entire South Island from today with residents of the West Coast becoming the latest population to benefit from the life-saving programme. West Coast is the 17th DHB to join the National Bowel Screening .
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 4:49 pm
The National Bowel Screening Programme (NBSP) was
launched in Wellington this week, bringing free screening to
around 45,000 people living in Kapiti, Porirua and
Wellington city.
Capital & Coast District Health
Board is the 16th DHB to offer bowel screening and joins its
neighbours, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa, which were the first
DHBs to join the national programme when it began almost
four years ago.
NBSP Clinical Director Dr Susan Parry
says the addition of the greater Wellington population to
the programme this week is a significant
milestone.
“Around 86 percent of
eligible New Zealanders, aged 60 to 74, now have access to
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