When you’ll be invited for breast screening and who should go
Anyone registered with a GP as female will be invited for NHS breast screening every 3 years between the ages of 50 and 71. You’ll get a letter in the post inviting you.
When you’ll be invited
Non-urgent advice: Breast Screening – when patients will be contacted by the screening service
Please note that eligible patients will be sent their initial screening invitations sometime between their 50th and before their 53rd birthday.
You’ll automatically get your first invite for breast screening between the ages of 50 and 53. Then you’ll be invited every 3 years until you turn 71.
If you’re a trans man, trans woman or are non-binary you may be invited automatically, or you may need to talk to your GP surgery or call the local breast screening service to ask for an appointment.
You need to be registered with a GP surgery to be invited for breast screening.
Breast screening (mammogram) – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
If you have not been sent a letter
If you have not been invited for breast screening by the time you are 53 and think you should have been, contact your local breast screening service.
Find Breast screening services services – NHS (www.nhs.uk)