British Health Services Failed To Send Mammogram Notices And Some Women May Have Died
Nearly half a million English women around age 70 did not get notified that they were due for a mammogram because of a "computer algorithm error," the health secretary says.
A "computer algorithm failure" in the U.K. kept hundreds of thousands of women from getting notified it was time for a mammogram, potentially shortening the lives of up to 270 women, the National Health Service says.
The U.K. sends letters to women who are due for breast screening, according to British national guidelines, which call
