§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans he has to improve screening of women in the London borough of Waltham Forest for breast cancer and cervical cancer.
§ Mrs. CurrieFunds will be provided for a national breast cancer screening service to be established in England over the next three years on the basis of centres each serving a population of approximately half a million. It is for regional health authorities to decide in which districts the centres should be located and how the special allocations provided to establish them should be deployed.
As far as cervical screening is concerned, I understand that a computerised call-recall system will be implemented in the spring of 1988 by the Redbridge and Waltham Forest family practitioner committee and that call will then commence from women aged 20. A named person will be appointed in overall charge of the cervical screening programme as soon as possible.