Breast cancer screening hotline staffed by people with only an hour's training
Medics screen scans for breast cancer.A helpline set up by the government for women affected by an IT failure has been criticised by its staff.Distraught women contacting the government’s breast cancer screening hotline are being connected with call-handlers who have had only one hour’s training and are relying on a cheat sheet of symptoms, the Guardian has learned.
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