A deliberately narrow service. One test, one number, one report, and a doctor to talk it through with.
We give you the actual number your sample produced, read against the threshold a GP would use, and a doctor to talk it through with. Not a pass or a fail.
Detection rates vary enormously across the range of results that all get labelled positive. Knowing whether you are at 12 or at 400 is useful information, not a technical detail.
Whatever your number turns out to be. A raised result arriving by email at nine at night, with nobody to ask, is a bad way to find something out.
Samples are analysed by The Doctors Laboratory, a UKAS accredited medical laboratory, on the same analysers the NHS uses.
Bowel cancer is being diagnosed more often, and increasingly in people too young for the screening programme to reach. Meanwhile the route to a simple stool test is harder to navigate than it should be.
So this is a deliberately narrow service. One test, one number, one report, one conversation. The evidence behind how we report results is set out in full on its own page.
It is not a replacement for the NHS. If you are within the screening age range, take the screening kit when it arrives: it is free and it works. If you have symptoms that meet the referral criteria, your GP can arrange a FIT at no cost and refer you onward, which we cannot do directly.
It is also not a registered GP practice and not ongoing care.
Bowel Cancer Test is a service of Pop Up Docs Limited, registered in England, company number 13147400, CQC provider ID 1-11854805327, ICO registration ZB199484. It was founded by Dr Rhea Bhadresha, GP, GMC 7528328. Every result report is written and signed by a GMC registered GP.
Samples are analysed by The Doctors Laboratory, a UKAS accredited medical laboratory, No. 9317, accredited to ISO 15189:2022.
Reported at the threshold a GP would use, with a written report and a telephone consultation included whatever the result.