Huge Milestone for Bowel Screening Wales
Public Health Wales are pleased to announce the further optimisation of their bowel screening programme by reducing the minimum screening…
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NICE DG56 vs. NICE DG30
Updates to FIT Guidance In August 2023 NICE published updated guidance on ‘Quantitative faecal immunochemical testing (FIT)’ to guide colorectal…
NICE recommends GPs use FIT test for all suspected colorectal cancer patients
In article published in PULSE outlining the possible changes to the NICE guidelines regarding FIT in Primary Care. “NICE has…
A New Portal to Ef-FIT-ciency
Author – Emma Boxall, Marketing & Innovations Manager, Alpha Laboratories Ltd. The impact of the Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) on…
A Fitting Tribute: Judith Strachan is Presented with the 2022 ACB Foundation Award
Faecal Immunochemical Testing – Past, Present and Future At the ACB UKMedLab22 Scientific Meeting, held at the Royal College of…
Partnership with the NHS Award
On Thursday 2nd December 2021, at the Annual MediWales conference in Cardiff, Alpha Laboratories was declared the winner of the…
Partnership with the NHS Award Winners!
We are thrilled to announce that Alpha Laboratories has won the award for ‘Partnership with the NHS’ at the MediWales…
Faecal Immunochemical Test sees bowel screening uptake increase in Scotland – Update from CRUK
“New statistics published in Scotland have shown that before the COVID-19 pandemic, uptake of bowel screening had increased. This is…
Innovative Tayside Testing Programme Wins Global Award
Congratulations to the team from NHS Tayside’s Blood Sciences and Gastroenterology department, who alongside Primary Care colleagues, won the Global…
The Evolving Use of Faecal Immunochemical Testing – Accelerated by the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges for clinicians and supporting services that have driven the need to manage patients…