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It is time to dust off the bone China tea set and crack out the cake stands in Invercargill. The South Alive’s events team are readying themselves...

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.

A group of southern health advocates have denounced a Ministry of Health decision to remove its guidance for managing colonoscopy services.

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...

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 warn...