March 20, 2025 | Paakiwaha
Health Minister Simeon Brown's decision to make bowel screening free at the universal age of 58 for all New Zealanders goes against research data and evidence.
March 10, 2025 | News
Greens co-leader Marama Davidson condemns the changes to the bowel screening program as institutionally racist, warning they risk Māori lives to cancer.
July 31, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Our National Bowel Screening Programme has distributed over two million home-screening kits across Aotearoa, picking up 2,495 cancers.
July 3, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Tell us about the National Bowel Screening Programme
January 22, 2024 | Paakiwaha
The bowel cancer screen programme is celebrating one million returned kits
October 13, 2023 | News
Māori and Pasifika people in Tairāwhiti aged between 50 and 59 are now able to take part in the free National Bowel Screening Programme.
July 5, 2023 | Paakiwaha
Bowel screening is an issue we need to be more aware of as it is Aotearoa’s second highest cause of […]
November 2, 2022 | News
The gap in some Māori health indicators is starting to close.
September 20, 2022 | News
Te Taitokerau is taking a tikanga Māori approach to the roll out of the national bowel screening programme.
September 7, 2022 | News
Bowel Cancer New Zealand wants to see a Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand fix delays in younger patients’ access to diagnostic screening.
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