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…
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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…
Scottish Bowel Screening Programme Restarts After Pandemic Lockdown
The Scottish Bowel Screening Programme formally restarts on the 12th October following a brief suspension due to the effects of…
The NICE FIT Study is awarded the ACPGBI BJS Prize
Congratulations to Nigel D’Souza and the NICE FIT Study Team for winning the ACPGBI BJS Prize, for their work on…
Navigating the storm of COVID‐19 for patients with suspected bowel cancer
Correspondence to the BJS Society from Mr. Nigel D’Souza and Mr. Muti Abulafi regarding the use of FIT in the…
Transition to quantitative faecal immunochemical testing – A paper from the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme
Read this paper from the Scottish Bowel Screening Programme on the transition from guaiac based Faecal Occult Blood tests (gFOBT)…