HC Deb 15 February 1990 vol 167 c395W
Mr. Thurnham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what financial resources the North Western regional health authority has received over the last three years to run breast cancer screening programmes; and how many mobile screening units are currently in operation.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

North Western regional health authority has received a total of £4,129,000 over the years 1987–88 to 1989–90 to introduce and run breast cancer screening by mammography.

There are two mobile breast cancer screening units currently in operation in the North Western region. The centres are based in the following areas:

  1. (a) South Manchester—serving Manchester and
  2. (b) West Lancashire and Chorley and South Ribble—serving both those districts.

Further mobile units are planned for introduction in March 1990 and July 1990.