that was the revelation by the health secretaryjeremy hunt, who told mps that a computer error dating to 2009 meant that nearly half a million women had not been given an appointment. he announced an independent review, apologising for what he called "administrative incompetence", as our health editor hugh pym reports. patricia thinks she's probably a victim of the major errors with breast cancer screening which emerged today. she was due a routine mammogram in 2013 at the age of 70, but never got the invitation. two years later, she developed breast cancer. i look back now and think, you know, everything that happened since could possibly have been avoided or lessened. the whole journey i went on, the traumatic journey of all the treatment, could... may never have had to have happened. today, the government admitted there's been a serious failure in nhs screening, caused in part by it problems, with sometimes tragic consequences. there may be between 135 and 270 women who had their lives shortened as a result. i'm advised that it is unlikely to be more than this range and may be cons

we asked health secretaryjeremy thoroughly reviewed. we asked health secretary jeremy huntn interview, but he said no, and we got this statement instead. it has become so normal now for me to just look at the ingredients on a packet. i wouldn't dare just buy something without turning to the back and looking at the ingredients. so, this is what might smoothie usually looks like. —— my smoothie. nutrition supplements have been by far the biggest help in my recovery. but what helps me won't help every me sufferer. 0ne but what helps me won't help every me sufferer. one of the problems is what seems to ease symptoms for one may not work for raw, and i've also started thinking, what if nothing works at all? just how serious can me get? i've heard about a girl called merin who had severe me for six years and passed away. i am on my way to meet her mum and sister to find out more about her story and what happened to her. when merin was 15 she woke up —— one morning with swelling on her hands and feet. sometime later this was diagnosed as glandularfever, sometime later this was dia

the health secretaryjeremy hunt says he's "encouraged" that the prime minister "completely understandse nhs. his comments come as a major new report suggests taxes will have to rise to pay for the health service, if the uk is to avoid "a decade of misery" in which older and more vulnerable people are let down. this report from our political editor laura kuenssberg contains some flashing images. ca re costs. more and more. hospitals in the red, waiting lists at record levels. the prime minister has promised to fix it, but will it really happen? will you get the money you need for the nhs? i'm not going to talk about that this evening. will the health secretary win the argument for as much as another 4%? are you confident the government will learn the lessons of the past, and the one that the nhs needs about 4% every year — year after year — in order to be healthy in the long term? i'm, you know, very encouraged. i think the prime minister completely understands this. she's absolutely passionate about the nhs and she wants the nhs to have a multi—year settlement. does that mean we, the p

that was the revelation by the health secretaryjeremy hunt, who told mps that a computer error dating2009 meant that nearly half a million women had not been given an appointment. he announced an independent review, apologising for what he called "administrative incompetence", as our health editor hugh pym reports. patricia thinks she is probably a victim of the major errors with breast cancer screening which emerged today. she was due a routine mammogram in 2013 at the age of 70, but never got the invitation. two years later, she developed breast cancer. i look back now and think, you know, everything that happened since could possibly have been avoided or lessened. the whole journey i went on, the traumatic journey of all of the treatment, could... may even never have had to have happened. today, the government admitted there had been a serious failure in nhs screening, caused in part by it problems with sometimes tragic consequences. there may be between 135 and 270 women who had their lives shortened as a result. i'm advised that it is unlikely to be more than this range and may b

just after 7:30 this morning, we'll be speaking to the health secretaryjeremy hunt about the funding.liver a strongly worded rebuke to russia. at a meeting of security chiefs in berlin, andrew parker will warn that the islamic state group still aspires to commit "devastating" attacks in europe. he will also condemn russia for what he says was the "targeted" salisbury poisoning. it will argue the uk and other european intelligence agencies must maintaina european intelligence agencies must maintain a close partnership to combat the evil next a group. he says he still aspires to reform he says he still aspires to reform he says they still aspire to attacks in the middle east. more on that later. two british tourists who were kidnapped in the democratic republic of congo have been freed. the couple were ambushed in virunga national park on friday. a park ranger who was with the tourists was killed. simon clemison has this report. this and robert had been exploring africa's oldest park, wahroonga. 0n friday, the vehicle they were travelling in was ambushed as they we re travelling in was

the health secretaryjeremy hunt told mps that a computer error had meant that 450,000 women, aged around0, had failed to get invitations since 2009. he announced an independent review and apologised to the women and their families "wholeheartedly and unreservedly" — saying oversight of the screening programme had not been good enough. earlier this year, pag analysis of trial data from the service firm there was an algorithm failure dating back to 2009. the latest estimates i have received from phe is as estimates i have received from phe isasa estimates i have received from phe is as a result of this, between 2009 and the start of 2018, an estimated 450,000 women aged between 68 and 71 we re 450,000 women aged between 68 and 71 were not invited to their final breast screening. at this stage, it is unclear whether any delay in diagnosis will have resulted in any avoidable harm or death and that is one of the reasons i am ordering an independent review to establish the clinical impact. 0ur independent review to establish the clinical impact. our current best estimate, which comes with cave