Scottish breast screening uptake increases again and there is no postcode lottery here

From Public Health Scotland today:

711,189 women were invited, and 539,575 attended, a routine breast screening appointment. This equates to more than three in four women (75.9%) taking up their screening invitations. This is an increase on the previous three-year period (2019/22), when uptake was 74.5%, and pre-pandemic (2017/20), when uptake was 72.2%.

All NHS boards individually met the acceptable uptake standard of 70% for the three-year period (2020/23): This is the second time this has happened since 2008/11, with the first time being the 2019/2022 period.

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/scottish-breast-screening-programme-statistics/scottish-breast-screening-programme-statistics-annual-update-to-31-march-2023/

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  1. Unionist media headline: “A quarter of all women refuse to take breast screening” – A damning indictment of this SNP Government, say all Labour MSPs. This is why Labour will use private health care.

    Alasdair Macdonald

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