§ Mr. Simon Coombsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will make a statement on the national breast cancer screening programme.
§ Mrs. Currie[pursuant to her reply, 30 June 1987, c. 364–5]: Regional health authorities have now decided on the locations of their first breast cancer screening centres to be operational by March 1988. The locations are:
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Regional health authority Locations North Western Manchester1 Trent Nottingham1 South East Thames Camberwell1 South West Thames Guildford1
Regional health authority Locations North West Thames Barnet North East Thames Epping2 Mersey Liverpool West Midlands Stoke-on-Trent Northern Gateshead Wessex Southampton Yorkshire Huddersfield2 Oxford Aylesbury Vale2 East Anglian Suffolk2 South Western Cornwall2 1 Centres which will provide a national training service. 2With mobile unit. Some regional health authorities are planning to start further centres before March 1988. My March 1990 there will be sufficient centres to provide a nationwide service.