Award over breast screening service failure

An NHS Trust is to pay a ‘substantial’ settlement in compensation to a nurse after a breast screening service failed to detect her cancer. She was called for routine screening for breast cancer, offered to all women in England over 50. Mammograms were taken at a mobile unit and she heard no more and took it that all was well. Two years later, she was referred to hospital and discovered it was cancer both in the breast and lymph nodes. She also learned that the 2002 mammograms had now been reviewed and that they showed early cancer.