Bowel Screening Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:36 pm on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 2:36, 25 April 2018

Cabinet Secretary, I also look forward to the uptake being increased, because the new faecal immunochemical test is obviously more sensitive and a better test. But there are two issues. I also look forward to you perhaps looking at the age 50 to 60, because we don't have that age being accepted, but there may be individuals who have a history in families doing that, which you may want to specialise in. But those types of things mean more referrals, and, if you actually you do the FIT test, which is more sensitive than currently being proposed, you will definitely have more referrals and we have a problem with endoscopy and nurses and doctors in that area—we have a problem with diagnostics. What's the Welsh Government going to do to, basically, attack that problem, so that we can ensure that, if we get more referrals, they will be seen as quickly or quicker than they are now?