1,800 women 'let down' over breast cancer screenings by SNP

Red Robin - 14 Spetember 2018

Almost 1,800 women have not been invited to their final breast cancer screening session in a serious failure in Scotland’s health system, the Scottish Government has admitted.

The then-SNP Health Secretary Shona Robison had told Parliament in May in regards to a similar problem in England that “the issue does not affect the NHS in Scotland” and “patients should be reassured that there are no problems with our breast screening programme records or information technology systems.”... See more


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