How to get a bowel cancer home test kit

Advice and Information - 9 September 2024

Bowel cancer is the 3rd most common type of cancer, and it can affect anyone. Screening can help prevent bowel cancer or find it at an early stage when it's easier to treat. This is why it's important that anyone that receives a bowel cancer screening kit uses it. Bowel cancer screening kits are available to everyone aged 50+.

If you are aged 50 to 74

A home test kit will be automatically sent to your home every two years IF you are registered with a GP. If you are not, please register. If you are already registered, please check your postal address that the GP has on your records.

If you think you have not received a kit but should have, or if you have misplaced yours, then you order a new one using using this form. 

If you are aged over 75

You can request a kit every two years by calling the freephone number 0800 707 60 60.

How to use the home test kit

Details of how to use the kit can be found on the Government website in a range of languages. 

You collect a sample of your poo and send it to a lab who checks the sample for tiny amounts of blood that can be a sign of polyps or blood cancer.

More information

For more information on bowel cancer, see the bowel cancer page on the NHS website.  For more information on bowel cancer screening, see the bowel cancer screening page on the NHS website.

 

 

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