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April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, a chance to raise awareness about the signs and symptoms of this disease. The earlier bowel cancer is spotted, the more treatable it is likely to be.  

Find supporting materials to help raise awareness such as symptoms posters, videos and social media graphics here: Bowel Cancer UK/ Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 

Download the NHS England resources here including posters, social media assets and a communication toolkit: Help Us Help You/bowel cancer awareness 

The charity, Bowel Cancer UK, also has patient information leaflets here: Bowel Cancer UK patient publications

Sussex-based Trust for Developing Communities has also created a range of resources to raise awareness about bowel cancer and screening, including videos from patients talking about their experience of being diagnosed with the disease. Awareness posters are available in Arabic, Bengali, English and Ukrainian. Find the resources here: Trust for Developing Communities/Act on Cancer Together

For healthcare professionals:

• Bowel Cancer UK provides education resources, networking opportunities and services to support healthcare professionals and patients. Find it all here: Bowel Cancer UK for health professionals 
• GatewayC has a range of free, CPD resources to support primary care professionals this Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. They cover earlier detection, screening and FIT. Find them below: 

         Bowel Cancer Screening course 

         FIT course 

         Lower GI podcast episode

• For the SSCA FIT information toolkit for primary care, visit here: FIT and symptomatic patients