North Staffordshire Bowel Cancer Screening Programme

WINTER WELLBEING FOR ALL
Wednesday 14th October 2pm - 7pm
Be kind to yourself and come along to our FREE health event for expert support and guidance.
FREE refreshments :)
FREE raffle
PORT VALE FC HAMIL ROAD, BURSLEM ST6 1AW

The previous event held in April was a great success :)

Happy 60th Birthday Karen with lots of love and best wishes on your special day.

http://www.youtube.com/
Open the link above to access information along with patient stories relating to 3 key videos’ explaining each topic - Breast, FIT/Bowel, Cervical

Newcastle Central PCN Welcome to Newcastle Central Primary Care Network, working together to provide support for these six Newcastle-under-Lyme based GPs- Wolstanton Medical Centre, Lyme Valley, Miller Street Surgery, Higherland, Milehouse Medical Practise and The Village Surgery.

A third of people (33%) eligible for bowel cancer screening in the UK don’t complete their test, data revealed by the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity Bowel Cancer UK has shown.

The bowel screening programme helps to spot bowel cancer before symptoms start, when it’s most treatable. A screening kit will be sent to you in the post if you’re within the age range for the screening programme and registered with a GP.

Bowel cancer is more common in people over the age of 50, but it can affect anyone of any age. If you’re below the screening age and are worried you may have symptoms of bowel cancer, go to see your GP. They may give you an at-home test, known as a symptomatic FIT. This is similar to the bowel cancer screening test — it also looks for blood in your poo, but it’s only given if you have symptoms of bowel cancer.
In North Staffordshire there is a high % of people aged 50 to 59 that are invited to be screened but are not completing the FIT kit.
Early detection is key if you do receive a screening FIT kit, please do your bit and complete the kit!!

AUGUST 2026 EVENTS / Activities
6th YMCA sharing information about the screening programme
10th Lucy Wedgwood Surgery @ 9.30am sharing information about the programme
11th Potteries Medical Centre, @ 2pm as above
18th Furlong Medical Centre @ 9.30am as above
24th Harley Street Medical Centre @ 9.30am as above

Happy Weekend from the North Staffordshire Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

Eating Healthy is good for the Bowel.

Bowel Screening video on how to complete your fit kit ⬇️

FIT aid - NHS Instructions for doing your FIT test and using the FIT aid The FIT aid is a device that has been created to help you to easily and independently hold, open and close the bottle for FIT testing.This webpage contains instructions for use in different formats including; audio file, video, audio transcr...

Its men's week and 1 in 17 men will be diagnosed with Bowel Cancer in their lifetime.
Bowel cancer is more common in people over the age of 50, but it can affect anyone of any age. If you’re below the screening age and are worried you may have symptoms of bowel cancer, go to see your GP.
The bowel screening programme helps to spot bowel cancer before symptoms start, when it’s most treatable.

Recently received a fit kit and need more guidance on how to complete see below link for support.

FIT aid - NHS Instructions for doing your FIT test and using the FIT aid The FIT aid is a device that has been created to help you to easily and independently hold, open and close the bottle for FIT testing.This webpage contains instructions for use in different formats including; audio file, video, audio transcr...