<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 15 June 2016.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:29, 15 June 2016

Well, I think there’s a fairly high awareness of both cervical cancer screening and also bowel cancer screening. The challenge is how we make it easy for people to take that up. On bowel cancer, in particular, it’s not so much about the advice people get, because we will follow the advice we’re given about where is the most appropriate point for people to be screened, but it’s about the test. Because, frankly, the test currently is not a very pleasant test to have to do; I won’t describe it. But the reality is that there is the potential for a new test—it will be easier to administer and we are much more likely to see a much greater take-up therefore, and a much greater surveillance and, actually, earlier warning for people. So, there is something about how technology and movement can actually help people to undertake screening, to avail themselves of screening resources that are available. So, we need to take account of that progress that is made and then understand if the evidence says it will be a better job, we then need to make sure it’s rolled out in a consistent way across the country.