Don’t Ignore This Life-Saving Screening: Cornwall Leisure Centres Back NHS Bowel Cancer Campaign

Nine Better leisure centres across Cornwall are supporting an NHS campaign this April to raise awareness of bowel cancer screening.

Encouraging Early Detection

Run by not-for-profit social enterprise GLL on behalf of Cornwall Council, the centres will display posters promoting the screening programme. Each poster includes a QR code that can be scanned for further information and to register for a test kit, which is sent by post.

Screening is available to everyone in the UK aged 50 and over, every two years.

A Message From the Centres

Karen Edmond, GLL’s Community Sport Manager in Cornwall, highlighted the importance of early detection:

“We’re proud to be supporting the NHS South West Provider Collaborative (SWPC) in this hugely important campaign.

“Sadly, far too many people don’t take up the opportunity to screen themselves in the privacy of their own home – despite it being a very simple, quick procedure that could save their life.

“Our leisure centres are community hubs that customers use to help keep them fit and healthy so reminding them of how to prevent illness in other ways is, we think, a no-brainer.

“The message is clear – take note of these posters. The test they’re promoting is easy and could stop bowel cancer in its deadly tracks.”

Where to Find the Posters

The nine participating Better leisure centres are located in Bude, Liskeard, Saltash, St Austell, Bodmin, Newquay, Truro, Helston, and St Ives.

For those eligible, the at-home screening test is quick and could make a life-saving difference.

📷St Austell Leisure Centre’s Sport in Mind group with some of the posters