Bowel Cancer Screening - How to use the home test kit

The screening kit used in England is the faecal immunochemical test kit – known as the FIT kit.

You collect a small sample of poo on a small plastic stick and put it into the sample bottle and post it to a lab for testing.

There are instructions that come with the kit.

FIT kit instructions (English)

FIT kit instructions (Arabic)

FIT kit instructions (Bengali)

FIT kit instructions (Simplified Chinese)

FIT kit instructions (Traditional Chinese)

FIT kit instructions (Farsi)

FIT kit instructions (Gujarati)

FIT kit instructions (Polish)

FIT kit instructions (Portuguese)

FIT kit instructions (Punjabi)

FIT kit instructions (Urdu)

Please click here for short animation explaining how to use your bowel cancer screening kit. Subtitles are available in English, as well as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Farsi, Gujarati, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi and Urdu. A British Sign Language version is also available.

Or please video see below.