The national breast-screening programme is to operate a reduced service for the first week of January, due to Covid-19. Women who have booked for routine screening before 11 January will be contacted by their unit and offered a new appointment.
BreastCheck said that some of its units are temporarily closed due to Covid-19 and the service is working with finite staffing nationwide. "We have therefore made the decision to focus our resources on women within our care who are deemed to be at higher risk at this time," the service said in an update.
These are women who are in the assessment phase of breast screening. BreastCheck is asking women scheduled for a follow-up assessment from 4 January to continue to attend on the day and time given.