Time to Screen - National Bowel Screening Programme

Bowel Screening Promotion

Project Dates:

2026

General Practices are invited to take part in the NBSP May Primary Care Promotion to increase bowel screening participation among under-screened groups and improve patient outcomes.

Bowel screening helps detect cancer early, when it can often be successfully treated. The May campaigns in 2023, 2024 and 2025 were highly successful, increasing kit requests among under-screened groups. This year’s promotion aims to build on that success and drive even greater participation.

Register now to access free resources and participate in the campaign.

You can Register here

What do we want clinicians to do?

Have a conversation with priority group patients who have not completed bowel screening.
Use the desk top trifold to guide the conversation.

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Opportunistic conversations:

GPs and practice nurses will be encouraged to initiate discussions about bowel screening during consultations to support informed decision-making.

Available Resources:

Primary care desk stand

2026 Bowel Screening Promotion - Primary care desk stand

‘You’ve got this’ poster

2026 Bowel Screening Promotion - ‘You’ve got this’ poster

‘You can now have bowel screening from 58’ poster

2026 Bowel Screening Promotion - ‘You can now have bowel screening from 58’ poster

Whole bowel screening sample kit

Time to Screen - National Bowel Screening Sample Kit

Tube with attached info card

National Bowel Screening Programme Primary Care Tube with attached info card

Bowel screening quadfold card (formerly the flipchart)

National Bowel Screening Programme Primary Care Quadfold Card

You can review the project archive & reports here