Breast Cancer: Screening

(asked on 24th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) eliminate the shortfall in the overall number of women who underwent breast screening as a result of the covid-19 outbreak and (b) catch up with the estimated 936,430 fewer women who were screened in 2020-21 compared to 2019-20.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 29th March 2022

All National Health Service breast screening services are operational, offering additional screening sessions and walk-in appointments. NHS England and NHS Improvement have allocated £50 million to support the recovery of breast screening services and a further £22 million to replace mobile breast screening units. This funding seeks to improve uptake in rural and less affluent areas and accelerate the restoration of services impacted by the pandemic. Later this year, we will set out a 10 year cancer plan which will focus on early diagnosis and innovative treatments.

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