Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion

Ms Fiona Murphy:

When the strategy was written, the BowelScreen programme had been in existence for two to three years. At that point, we had an uptake of the faecal immunochemical test, FIT, of approximately 40%. The strategy recommended increasing the targeted uptake to 45% and then to 60%. We did not move past the 45% rate quickly. It took a number of years to reach that point. Now, roughly-----

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