Breast screening to expand to South and West

A SIGNIFICANT breakthrough has been made in the long campaign to have the national breast screening programme expanded to include women from the South and West.

The rollout of the programme, which has been operating in the East, North-East and Midlands for five years, has been dogged by delays.

A business plan for the national rollout of the BreastCheck programme to the South and West was first given to the Department of Health in July 2002 yet progress has been piecemeal since.