A NEW multi-million pound breast screening unit has opened at a hospital.
The facility is the first stage of an £8m development at York Hospital and boasts two extra advanced mammography rooms, including dedicated digital biopsy equipment.
There is also a new second breast ultrasound room and dedicated counselling rooms, where support, advice and information can be given.
Work on the second phase of the project has now begun. It will bring together the different parts of the breast service, including outpatient clinics, into one purpose-built area at the front of the hospital, over the next six months.
Dr Anna Murphy, the hospital's lead clinician on breast screening, said: "We have a fantastic multidisciplinary team here at York. Now we will have the facilities to match it."
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