Health written question – answered at on 17 September 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health in which areas of England bowel cancer screening has not yet commenced.
We are continuing to roll out the National Health Service Bowel Cancer Screening Programme and expect it to be fully implemented by December 2009. The following table lists the remaining primary care trusts where bowel cancer screening will commence in the final roll out.
Strategic health authority | Primary care trust |
East Midlands | Lincolnshire |
East of England | Luton |
East of England | South East Essex |
East of England | Bedfordshire |
East of England | Peterborough |
East of England | West Essex |
East of England | North East Essex |
East of England | Mid Essex |
East of England | South West Essex |
London | Bromley |
London | Bexley Care Trust |
London | Havering |
North West | Blackburn with Darwen |
North West | Stockport |
North West | Tameside and Glossop |
North West | East Lancashire |
North West | Trafford |
South Central | Oxfordshire |
South Central | Isle of Wight |
South Central | Milton Keynes |
South Central | Buckinghamshire |
South East Coast | Brighton and Hove City |
South East Coast | Surrey |
South East Coast | East Sussex Downs and Weald |
South East Coast | Hastings and Rother |
South East Coast | Eastern and Coastal Kent |
South East Coast | Medway |
South East Coast | West Kent |
South West | Bath and North East Somerset |
South West | Swindon |
South West | Wiltshire |
South West | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |
South West | South Gloucestershire |
South West | North Somerset |
South West | Bristol |
West Midlands | Telford and Wrekin |
West Midlands | Herefordshire |
West Midlands | South Birmingham |
West Midlands | Shropshire County |
West Midlands | Worcestershire |
Yorkshire and the Humber | Wakefield District |
Yorkshire and the Humber | Calderdale |
Yorkshire and the Humber | Leeds |
Yorkshire and the Humber | Kirklees |
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