Organisation: DISCARD3 (St Mark's Hospital) and NHSE Optical Diagnosis Implementation teams
Team Members: Ahmir Ahmad, Brian Saunders, Stephen Hearing and Lee Adams representing the teams
Statement: The DISCARD3 study showed that optical diagnosis with a “resect and discard” strategy is a greener, leaner, more efficient and cost-effective way to perform colonoscopy and is both safe and acceptable for patients and clinicians. The findings have now been adopted nationally in the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP)