Various studies are taking place around the UK, looking at how key technologies could help to improve adenoma detection rates, as well as the diagnosis of other conditions such as coeliac disease. The Clinical Services Journal reports.
The NHS has just announced the successful roll-out of its first phase of bowel scope screening centres in England, allowing these centres to offer scope screening to men and women from the age of 55.1 Cancer Research UK, which helped to fund and develop the scope screening programme, claim that it could save 3,000 lives a year and prevent a third of bowel cancers in those people screened.1
This is great news, particularly coupled with the news from a study which analysed the first one million test results from the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in England, which showed it is on track to cut bowel cancer deaths by 16%.2
However, alongside this, the NHS needs to plan for a year-on-year increase in lower GI Endoscopies of around 15% – 120,000 extra procedures per year. An average sized Trust will be carrying out an extra two sessions per week, while a larger Trust will need to plan in an extra four sessions per week.3
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