Changes to the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program mean that health care providers can hand out bowel screening kits to patients directly. The session will discuss the implications of this. This event is in collaboration with Western Victoria Primary Health Network.
Alternative access to bowel cancer screening guides:
- Alternative Access to kits guide
- Bowel cancer and the importance of screening
- Getting started in your practice
- Ordering kits
- Issuing a kit and recording it in the NCSR
- Encouraging patients to screen for bowel cancer
- Notifications, results and patient follow-up
- Resources and contacts
- Download the guide
- NCSR’s quick start guide & walk-through video
- Integrating your clinical software
Clinical resources:
- Melbourne HealthPathways
- HealthPathways Western Victoria
- National Bowel Cancer Screening – clinical resources
- NWMPHN QI activities (PSDAs) for general practice
- Cancer Council Victoria’s resources for general practices
- VACCHO – Clinical cervical screening resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients
Further training and education for health professionals:
- Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer – Breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening: Clinical education modules
Patient resources:
