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NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme

Great Britain · Government / Labour Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2006

Patricia Hewitt2006

England · Government / Labour Party Government

The NHS launches a national bowel-cancer screening programme for older adults, extending population screening to a cancer affecting both men and women.

Names involved

Patricia Hewitt

Provenance

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