{"id":293236,"date":"2025-04-29T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/kemi-badenoch-i-would-not-want-a-man-doing-my-breast-screening-exam\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:32:08","slug":"kemi-badenoch-i-would-not-want-a-man-doing-my-breast-screening-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/kemi-badenoch-i-would-not-want-a-man-doing-my-breast-screening-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi Badenoch: ‘I would not want a man doing my breast screening exam’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kemi Badenoch has said she would not want a male radiographer performing a mammogram to screen for breast cancer.<\/p>\n

The Conservative leader said she would “definitely want a woman” to perform a breast screening exam – after experts said male health workers should be allowed to perform them to tackle workforce shortages.<\/p>\n

Mammograms are the only health examination carried out solely by female staff.<\/p>\n

The NHS’s breast screening programme invites women aged 50 to 71 for examinations which look for cancers too small to see or feel.<\/p>\n

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Amid a “critical” staff shortage, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) said male health workers could excel in the field but are being denied the chance because of their gender.<\/p>\n

Ms Badenoch, 45, told Times Radio: “I’ve had a mammogram, it is a very, very intrusive process.<\/p>\n

“It involves the clinician holding both of your breasts for a long period of time, feeling them, manipulating them, putting them in the machine.<\/p>\n

“I would not want a man doing that – (I) definitely would want a woman.”<\/p>\n

She added: “I think the solution is to get more radiographers, not to ask women, yet again, to sacrifice their privacy and dignity to deal with a supply issue. I don’t think that’s right.”<\/p>\n

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At the SoR annual conference, they will vote on whether they want to allow male mammographers, stating the skills needed “are not inherently gendered attributes, specific or biased to one gender”.<\/p>\n

The motion adds men “might excel in this” and “offer a different perspective or approach to patient care”.<\/p>\n

They also said transgender men should be included in the NHS breast screening programme.<\/p>\n

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The SoR said the vacancy rate among screening mammographers is 17.5% and is nearly 20% among symptomatic mammographers, who assess women with lumps in their breasts or family history of breast cancer.<\/p>\n

“Allowing men to work in mammography would help to reduce shortages – and therefore to reduce waiting lists,” said Charlotte Beardmore, executive director of professional policy at the SoR.<\/p>\n

“That, in turn, would ensure that every patient is given the treatment they need, when they need it.”<\/p>\n

A Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) spokesperson said: “This government inherited a broken NHS where too many cancer patients are waiting too long for diagnosis and treatment, including for breast cancer.<\/p>\n

“Through our Plan for Change, we are driving down waiting times, getting patients seen and treated faster.<\/p>\n

“We will also tackle workforce shortages head on, and ensure the NHS has the staff it needs to be there for all of us when we need it.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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