Breast cancer screening helpline inundated with calls

Jeremy Hunt blamed a computer failure for 450,000 people not being invited for screenings.Thousands of people have inundated a breast cancer screening helpline with calls as experts warned Jeremy Hunt had made women unnecessarily anxious by announcing that a computer failure had led to up to 270 avoidable deaths.As the helpline set up by Public Health England dealt with more than 5,000 calls by midday on Thursday, the charity Breast Cancer Care said it had seen a surge in calls to its helpline,