HNY Policy and Pathway Repository - Humber

Breast Screening is commissioned  to 80 Trusts nationally by NHS England. Locally Hull and East Yorkshires Hospital Trust (HEYHT) provides the screening service, following the protocoals and criteria detailed in the Breast Screening Programme (Service Specification No. 24).

Women below the current eligible age group (unless they meet the high-risk criteria)

Women who are not eligible for NHS care

Women who have had bilateral mastectomy

Symptomatic referrals

Post diagnosis follow-up and management

The treatment of breast cancer

Women who do not meet the criteria for higher-risk screening within the NHSBSP.

Women will be contacted by the service when they reach the age of 50 for their first screening.  The screening will be repeated every 36 months, as organised by the service until the woman reaches 70.  Pilots are in place nationally to screen a wider age range (47 to 73) and those at higher risk of developing breast cancer.

Women and their registered GP will be informed of the results.  Any requirements for referral for biopsy or to suspected cancer from screening, which will be organised by the services and the GP informed.

For suspected breast cancer please see Urgent Suspected Cancer - Breast

Mobile Screening Unit Sites - Hull

Hull and East Yorkshire Women & Children’s Hospital (Hull Royal Infirmary)
Woodford Leisure Centre
ASDA car park, Kingswood
Castle Hill Hospital

Mobile Screening Unit Sites - East Yorkshire

Withernsea Hospital
Hedon (formally Co-Op, now Netto)
Castle Hill Hospital
Hornsea Leisure Centre
Bridlington Hospital
Holme on Spalding Moore Village Hall
Langlands Garden Centre (Shiptonthorpe)
Driffield Tesco
Goole Hospital

Contact

For further details please contact - www.hey.nhs.uk/hbss

breast.screening@hey.nhs.uk or call (01482) 622656.

NHS public health functions agreement 2015/16 - Breast Screening Programme, Service Specification No.24.