Cancer Screening Promotion Pack

Has your General Practice received your Cancer Screening Promotion Pack?

The Department of Health have developed and are mailing out to all General Practice a Cancer Screening Promotion Pack which includes numerous resources to assist General Practices improve and encourage the uptake of cancer screening. These resources include:

- posters for each of the three programs to display in your waiting room (saved in the Documents section)

- demonstration sample kits of the bowel cancer screening home test kits and the cervical screening self-collection swabs including instructions on how to use these kits.

If your General Practices has not received a pack by the end of August 2022, please email your practice details to: epe@health.gov.au

A Cancer Screening Education Package has been developed to support your General Practice in your role promoting and managing patients through the bowel, breast and or cervical screening program. This package is free to access and accredited under RACGP and ACRRM.

For further information to support your patients participate in cancer screening, please visit: Guidance for patient screening | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care