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Group Action Lawyers investigating NHS Breast Cancer Screening Scandal

The Group Action Lawyers are investigating the NHS Breast Cancer Screening Scandal which has broken in the news this week.

Our Group Action Lawyers say there may be legal cases to answer for as Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, confirms that 270 women may have died as a direct result of an IT glitch that lead to them NOT receiving vital and potentially life-saving letters inviting them for periodic breast cancer screening.

It’s thought that women aged between 68 and 71 are affected by the glitch that occurred in 2009 that was discovered by Public Health England in January this year.
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