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Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening kit: how to use

Nhs England

October 2
11:16 2024

Healthcare professionals may find this information useful to help people understand how to use the home sampling kit provided by the NHS bowel cancer screening programme.

Instructions for using the kit are included inside the lid of the packaging. A HTML version of the instructions is available for people who have mislaid their kit packaging.

30 language translations for using the kit are also available. You can select your chosen language from the available options in the top right corner of this page. There is also a short animation explaining how to use the kit.

Updates to this page

Published 1 April 2013
Last updated 2 October 2024 +show all updates
  1. Converted 10 original language translations from PDF documents to accessible HTML attachments.

  2. Added translations of the FIT kit instructions in 20 additional languages.

  3. A single-page PDF of the test kit instructions (in English) has been added. This can be printed off and given to people who have mislaid their kit packaging containing the instructions.

  4. Added link to animation explaining how to use the FIT kit.

  5. Added translations of FIT kit instructions in 10 languages.

  6. Added document with instructions on using the bowel cancer screening FIT kit.

  7. First published.

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