Information for primary care

This page contains information designed for primary care healthcare professionals.

The NHS bowel cancer screening programme website has an information pack for GPs, which includes urgent referral guidelines, screening and treatment pathways, results of the initial screening pilot and patient information.

The bowel cancer section of the London Quality Assurance Reference Centre website has several useful links about bowel cancer screening, including:
• The screening pathway
• The call and recall pathway

You can also download two information charts showing the organisational structure of the screening programme and a screening timeline (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, free download).