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450,000 women missed out on breast screening appointments ‘due to computer error’

Around 450,000 women in England missed out on a routine breast screening appointment due to an NHS failure to send invitations. 

Around 450,000 women in England missed out on a routine breast screening appointment due to an NHS failure to send invitations.  Up to 270 women may have had their lives shortened as a result, according to estimates. A computer error has been blamed for the missed invitations. Since 2009 women aged 68-71 were not invited for their final screening appointment. Jeremy Hunt, secretary of state for health and social care, announced the news, as well as an independent inquiry to establish the clinical impact of the failure.  Emma Greenwood, Cancer Research UK’s director of policy and public affairs, called the

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