Resources

This training guide covers key steps for practice staff and health professionals to implement and promote bowel cancer screening. Before you order or issue kits for the first time, both the person ordering kits AND the person issuing kits must read this short guide.

Healthcare providers can order bowel cancer screening demo kits to demonstrate to patients how easy it is to do the test.

GPs use this sample letter template to encourage their patients to take part in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

General practitioners (GPs) use this form to provide information about consultations with bowel cancer screening patients who have received a positive iFOBT test result.

This checklist includes all the key items health professionals should cover when talking to patients about bowel screening. These activities do not all need to be carried out by one health professional or all at the same time.

This checklist includes all the key items health professionals should cover when talking with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients about bowel screening. These activities do not all need to be carried out by one health professional or all at the same time.

Doctors use this fact sheet to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take part in bowel cancer screening.

The flip chart is designed to be used by health professionals talking with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about bowel screening. It can be used with small groups or with a single person.

This fact sheet for health professionals explains how to increase participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

Health workers use this fact sheet to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take part in bowel cancer screening.

This fact sheet for health professionals provides information and tips on how general practices can encourage their patients to take part in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

These stickers are designed for use by hospitals and health providers to help identify referrals and results sheets for program participants.

This flowchart shows the pathways that people take through the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. It identifies what stages people are contacted throughout the process and who contacts them.

Colonoscopists use this form to report adverse outcomes of diagnostic investigation procedures for National Bowel Cancer Screening Program patients who have received a positive iFOBT result. Only use this form if the information has not already been included in the colonoscopy and histopathology.

Histopathologists use this form to report the results for specimens collected during a surgical resection procedure for a National Bowel Cancer Screening Program patient with a positive iFOBT result.

Colonoscopists use this form to report an adverse outcome for a procedure relating to diagnostic investigation of a National Bowel Cancer Screening Program participant who has received a positive iFOBT result. Only use this form if this has not already been included in the Colonoscopy Report.