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Lives Being Saved By Bowel Screening

Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 12:52 pm Twenty people have had cancers confirmed and many others have had pre-cancerous lesions removed since the National Bowel Screening Programme started in Canterbury. Kits started being delivered in volume in December last year, and by the end of March 16,705 kits had been sent to people aged 60 – 74 who had recent birthdays. The programme had its official launch this morning in the foyer of the new Waipapa building. The faecal immunochemical test (FIT) is easy and simple to do in the privacy of your own home. It can detect tiny traces of blood present in a small sample of

Zero colonoscopy delays on the horizon for Southern District Health Board

Notably, the 386 patients overdue for surveillances colonoscopies at Southland Hospital in November 2020 had dropped to 186 in February 2021 while the 47 patients waiting longer than 90 days for a non-urgent colonoscopy had reduced to one. These wait times are based on Ministry of Health advice and vary, depending on the urgency of a patient’s condition. Connolly said the board hoped to have reduced its surveillance colonoscopy wait list to zero by September 2021. In the interim, patients were being offered colonoscopies in Dunedin, he said. Robyn Edie/Stuff The Southern District Health Board’s colonoscopy service delivery has been a contentious issue in Southland for many years, leading the board to publicly apologise for its failures in 2020.

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