ALMOST 4,000 women were identified in 2016 as not having been sent routine invitations for breast screening, an MSP has highlighted.
Conservative MSP Jamie Greene raised the figures, contained in a review published in December that year by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), as he sought assurances the screening programme’s IT system is “fit for purpose”.
It comes as the Scottish Government revealed last week 1,761 women aged over 70 were being contacted by the NHS after it emerged they were not invited for breast screening appointments, with the length of delay ranging from a few months to three years.
That followed a review carried out after a “significant incident” in England meant an estimated 450,000 women were not invited to final screenings between 2009 and 2018. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she believed the situation in 2016 was a “separate issue”.
She added that Health Secretary Shona Robison had sought and received assurances the situation in England was not being repeated in Scotland.
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