Breast cancer screening: Grieving husband describes 'shell shock' after realising late wife may have not have been invited for tests

Breast cancer screening: Grieving husband describes 'shell shock' after realising late wife may have not have been invited for tests A grieving husband has described his shock at realising his wife may have been among those whose lives were cut short due to a breast cancer screening error.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said a “computer algorithm failure” dating back to 2009 had meant many women aged between 68 and 71 in England were not invited to their final routine screening.

He said it was not currently known whether any delay in diagnosis resulted in avoidable death, but that it is estimated between 135 and 270 women had their lives shortened as a result. The Independent

See also:

• Women offered NHS breast screening after missed invitations Public Health England
• Breast screening error 'affects 450,000 women' BBC News
• Breast screening error: What went wrong? BBC News
• Breast screening error angers survivor and family of deceased BBC News
• We must find out who was truly responsible for the NHS screening blunder and hold them to account The Daily Telegraph
• Jeremy Hunt to announce inquiry into breast cancer screening after hundreds of thousands were not tested due to error The Daily Telegraph
• NHS accused of breast cancer 'cover up' as nurse asks: 'I don't know if I'll survive... how did this happen?' The Daily Telegraph
• Hunt pledges advice for GPs after 450,000 women denied breast screening GPonline
• Breast cancer screening IT error: what you need to know The Guardian
• The computer glitch that led to the breast screening disaster The Guardian
• I'm not surprised that women were the victims of a life-altering NHS scandal – this should end Jeremy Hunt's career The Independent