North East Scotland Mobile Breast Screening Unit Banchory and Torphins Practices 2021

The North East Scotland Mobile Breast Screening Service will commence screening Banchory Group Practice and Torphins Medical Group on Wednesday 6^th October until the end of December.  This year the Mobile Unit will be sited in the car park outside the rotunda entrance of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill Road, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZN.

Women aged 50-70 years of age who are registered with a General Practitioner at Banchory Group Practice and Torphins Medical Group will receive an invitation to attend.  The letters are sent out 4 weeks before their appointment date.

Mrs Sarah Philip, Manager for the Breast Screening Service said, “The aim of the programme is to detect breast changes at an early stage when treatment has the best chance of being successful.  We hope that women invited for the first time will take advantage of their invitation for mammography and for women who have been screened previously, it is important to attend to ensure that there have been no changes over the past three years.  The risk of developing breast cancer increases as you get older, so if any woman missed or failed to attend their previous invitation, it is still important to come along for screening this time.

Due to the pause of breast screening as a result of COVID-19 we will have an additional mobile unit for 3 months to help with the backlog.  This year, rather than wait until the mobile unit is scheduled to go to Banchory in Spring 2022, we are reducing the wait by inviting ladies in these Practices to the additional mobile unit at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary from October to December 2021.”