NHS to launch new 'ping and book' phone service for cervical and breast cancer screening to save lives and cash By SHAUN WOOLLER, HEALTH EDITOR Published: 01:22, 13 November 2024 | Updated: 01:44, 13 November 2024 e-mail View comments The NHS will launch a new ‘ping and book’ service for cervical and breast cancer screening in a bid to boost uptake and save more lives and money. From next month, women who use the NHS App on their mobile phone will be sent notifications letting them know they are due or overdue their mamogram. This will be expanded to smear tests in spring next year and, from early 2026, millions of women will be able book breast screening appointments through the NHS app.
It is part of plans to fully digitise the way reminders and appointments are run for breast, bowel and cervical screening, with the aim of saving the NHS more than £130million over the next five years. Under the new rollout, women who do not have the app and those who do not respond to messages will be sent an email or text message, followed by a letter through the post. NHS cancer screening programmes currently send over 25million invitations, reminders and results letters to patients by post, costing £14.
7million every year, NHS England said. More than 18,000 breast cancers were picked up in women across England last year through screening (file image) Women who use the NHS App on their mobile phone will be sent notifications letting them know they are due or overdue their mamogram (.
