Breast Cancer: Screening

(asked on 2nd October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the number of people waiting of breast cancer screenings in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, and (c) England.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 3rd November 2020

Local National Health Service breast screening services are working to ensure that all eligible women are invited for screening as quickly as possible. The number of women waiting for an invitation for breast screening has reduced by over 400,000 nationally since June 2020. Since that time, further women have become due for invitation and there are currently 896,240 women awaiting a screening invitation nationally.

Within South Yorkshire there are 30,852 women awaiting a screening invitation, of which 9,731 are in Barnsley.

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