NEW bowel cancer screening facilities could soon be built in York.

Planners are poised to give permission for an extension at York Hospital which would house a new endoscopy department.

A planning application was submitted in earlier in the summer, and next week a City of York Council planning committee is set to meet and has been advised to approve the plans.

The plans are to put a first and second floor on top of an existing single storey building which houses the Remedial Therapy Department, to create space for a endoscopy screening rooms, and for sex segregated wards.

The demand for endoscopy is set to grow in part due to expansion of the NHS bowel cancer screening programme.