If the person you are helping has capacity to make their own decisions, please make sure that you have their consent.
If you have power of attorney for health and welfare for the person you are helping, you are able to make the decision on their behalf. Please make sure you have read an understood all the facts about bowel screening, good and bad, before you make the decision. You can contact the BSW helpline on 0800 294 3370 if you would like to discuss anything.
If the person lacks capacity to make their own decision about whether to take part in bowel screening and there is no power of attorney for health and welfare in place a decision in the person’s best interests will need to be reached and recorded. In order to make a best interest decision all relevant information needs to be obtained and considered including:
If you are supporting a person with a learning disability you can find Easy Read information on our website
You may need to discuss how you will help the person. Jointly, you may want to decide the following: