{"id":3748,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/breastscreening\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:10:43","slug":"breastscreening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/breastdisease\/breastscreening\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NHS Breast Screening Programme<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NHS Breast Screening Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Women aged 50-70 are invited every 3 years to attend for Breast Screening, using mammography.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Certain women can self-refer for breast screening: If they are aged 71-74 years old or have previously had breast cancer and have been discharged from yearly follow up mammograms, they can self-refer for a breast screening appointment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Breast screening is also offered to those aged 50-70 years in the following categories:<ul><li>Non-binary people who were assigned female at birth, and who haven\u2019t had breast removal surgery<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Trans men who haven\u2019t had breast removal surgery<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trans women who are taking hormones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Invites for people in the above categories will only be automatic if the CHI number is associated with the female gender. If this isn\u2019t the case, they can still have breast screening by arranging an appointment with their local breast screening centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J.B &amp; M.B, L.P 08-11-23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Referral Guidelines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p>If patients are aged 50-70 years and have not attended Breast Screening in the last three years, for whatever reason, the patient or her GP can phone 0131 537 7400 to arrange an appointment outwith the normal screening dates.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Primary Care Management<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/breastscreening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NHS Lothian Breast Screening Information<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nss.nhs.scot\/specialist-healthcare\/screening-programmes\/breast-screening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NHS Scotland National Services Breast Screening Information<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/healthy-living\/screening\/breast-screening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Breast screening in Scotland | NHS inform<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS Breast Screening Programme NHS Breast Screening Programme Invites for people in the above categories will only be automatic if the CHI number is associated with the female gender. If this isn&rsquo;t the case, they can still have breast screening by arranging an appointment with their local breast screening centre. J.B &amp; M.B, L.P 08-11-23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"class_list":["post-3748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-breastscreening"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/breastdisease\/breastscreening\/\" rel=\"tag\">Breast Screening<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"NHS Breast Screening Programme NHS Breast Screening Programme Invites for people in the above categories will only be automatic if the CHI number is associated with the female gender. If this isn&rsquo;t the case, they can still have breast screening by arranging an appointment with their local breast screening centre. J.B &amp; M.B, L.P 08-11-23","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25115,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3748\/revisions\/25115"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}