Breast Cancer Screening Debate

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Liz McInnes

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Breast Cancer Screening

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Wednesday 2nd May 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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I am very happy to make that commitment.

Liz McInnes Portrait Liz McInnes (Heywood and Middleton) (Lab)
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I hope that the independent review will investigate this, but is the Secretary of State aware of any instances of GPs inquiring why patients who should have had a final breast screen were not invited to have one?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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That is a very good question. I am not aware of any such instances, but that is exactly what we want to look at in the review. It does seem strange that people who were expecting to be invited did not come forward, and that their not receiving an invitation did not set any hares running. That is one of the things that we need to look at.

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