Breast screening error 'shortened up to 270 lives'
You may have heard yesterday that up to 270 women in England may have died because they did not receive invitations to a final routine breast cancer screening, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says.
Speaking in the Commons, Jeremy Hunt says 450,000 women aged 68-71 had failed to get invitations since 2009. GPs' leaders said they were "shocked" to learn of the error and said the implications for GPs would potentially be "significant".
