5:08 pm today

Bowel screening age to drop from 58 to 60

From Checkpoint, 5:08 pm today

Sacrificing Peter to pay Paul, institutional racism, disappointing, light on detail. These are some of the reactions to Health Minister Simeon Brown's announcement that the bowel screening age in New Zealand will fall from 60 to 58. To pay for it, the government's using money that was previously slated to go towards dropping the screening age for Maori and Pasifika people down to 50. Jimmy Ellingham reports.