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Women in Tower Hamlets now have more choice about where to give birth than ever before, with the launch of a local home birth service.

St Bartholomew's Hospital has today launched its new Service Pledge for Breast Cancer – an initiative in collaboration with leading UK charity Breast Cancer Now – to ensure that services for breast cancer patients are of the highest possible quality.

New mums are delighted with the experience of giving birth at the country’s biggest provider of maternity services, according to the regulator of NHS care.

Screening the entire population for breast and ovarian cancer gene mutations, as opposed to just those at high-risk of carrying this mutation, is cost effective and could prevent more ovarian and breast cancers than the current clinical approach, according our research.