NHS apologises to high-risk patients not told about annual breast screening checks

The NHS has written to almost 1,500 women at very high risk of breast cancer who have missed out on annual check-ups to screen for the disease over the past two decades. An urgent catch-up programme will be offered to 1,487 women who are at high risk because of radiotherapy treatment they had received for... Read moreThe post NHS apologises to high-risk patients not told about annual breast screening checks appeared first on Nursing in Practice.
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