Health officials warn little over half of 54-year-olds completed free at-home test kits.

MILLIONS of Brits are forgetting to complete lifesaving bowel cancer screening tests, health chiefs warn. The NHS sends free ...

The number of Britons in their 50s who take part in bowel cancer screening remains critically low, the NHS has warned.

Health officials have raised concerns over the “low numbers” of people in their 50s taking part in bowel cancer screening.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer ...

Health officials have voiced concerns regarding the significantly lower uptake of bowel cancer screening among people in ...

The latest NHS data shows only 56.2% of 54-year-olds completed their home screening test between April 2024 and March 2025, ...

Almost seven million people have taken part in NHS bowel screening in 2024/25, up from around 4.7 million in 2014/15. 70,000 cases of bowel cancer have been detected since the programme began 20 years ...

About half a million samples are collected from over-50s in Scotland each year in a highly successful NHS program that ...

Scotland’s public health minister has written to the UK National Screening Committee (NSC) to urge it to review the ...

Public health minister Maree Todd has written to the UK National Screening Committee calling for the age threshold to be ...