The Department of Health says it is confident the remaining elements for the full roll-out of the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) are on track for completion in the next month or two despite hopes it would be ready last month.

The department has also yet to set a date for the start of the new electronic bowel screening program, which was supposed to start in March 2017, telling a joint public accounts and audit committee hearing in Canberra yesterday that the bowel cancer plan will recommence when it has fully delivered the register services, being built by Telstra Health