1. What do you see as your role as a GP in cancer screening (general)? |
2. What do you see as your role as a GP in bowel screening? |
3. What factors influence whether or not you discuss bowel screening with patients? (Prompt for barriers and enablers) |
4. What advice do you give patients regarding bowel screening, and does this differ depending on the patient? Can you please elaborate? |
5. What is your view of different bowel cancer screening tests (FOBT, colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy)? |
6. From your perspective, how willing are patients to undertake bowel screening? What factors do you think affect this (patient willingness)? |
7. What sources of information about bowel cancer / bowel cancer screening do you use? |
8. What bowel cancer screening guidelines do you know about? What is available? How useful? |
9. What do you know about the NBCSP? |
10. What is your opinion of the NBCSP / Understanding of screening eligibility / The role of GPs in the program? |
11. What is your experience of the NBCSP in your practice? |
12. When you feel that a patient should have an FOBT, what do you do? |
13. What do you do with patients not eligible for the NBCSP? |
14. What could help enhance the role of primary care in bowel screening to improve screening and early detection? |