What A Stupid Policy

I guess I am back to blogging. I woke up this morning and read the paper. I could not believe this policy." Breast cancer screening is offered to all women aged 50 to 70 in England every three years; they are sent invitation letters to make an appointment for the test. "Apparently in the UK, patients are ' sent invitations ' every THREE years for a mammogram. The parts that piss me off are that patients are only invited for a mammogram (shouldn ' t it be automatically scheduled by their primary care ' s - or another doctor ' s - office?) everythree years. What ' s wrong with annually? Or is it too expensive for the NHS?And they missed ' inviting ' 450,000 women since 2009? How do you miss that large a group of people? Why couldn ' t they get their mammograms without an invitation?What a crazy policy that was obviously set up by people who do not understand breast cancer. but never fear:" Hunt apologized ‘‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly’’ for the suffering caused and promised there would be an independent review of the national breast screening program. "Maybe they should get a new policy instead.
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer cancer diagnosis mammogram stupidity Source Type: blogs