NHS logo and the following words in English: "Your next trip to the toilet could save your life."

Use these short 30 second videos to share in WhatsApp groups or on social media to encourage eligible people in your Greater Manchester neighbourhoods to take up their NHS Bowel Cancer Screening.

  • Bowel cancer screening is available to everyone aged 50 to 74.
  • The NHS automatically invites people once they become eligible for bowel cancer screening.
  • Bowel cancer screening is offered every two years.
  • 97 or 98 out of 100 people who use their bowel cancer screening kit do not need further tests.
  • 2 or 3 in 100 people are asked to go to hospital for further tests.
  • 7 to 10 in every 100 people who have a colonoscopy turn out to have bowel cancer.

You can download the short videos or email gmcancer.comms@nhs.net if you need these sending on email or WhatsApp us on 07816 268 450.
The videos are available in: English, Urdu, Arabic, Punjabi, Turkish, Polish, Farsi, Romanian, Gujarati, Hindi, Somali and Bengali.

If you need text to send out with the short video we suggest:

If you receive an NHS bowel cancer screening kit in the post, you should complete it as soon as possible.
Don’t put it off. Your next trip to the toilet could save your life.
Find out more at www.nhs.uk/bowel-screening