2025 Agenda

Community breast pain clinics: a transformation pathway

11 Jun 2025
Charter 5
Collaboration / partnerships / patient or public engagement , Quality and patient safety

Breast pain is not a symptom of breast cancer, yet nationally 20 per cent of two-week wait (2WW) breast referrals are breast pain alone. The East Midlands Breast Pain Pathway improves patient experience and frees capacity in secondary care diagnostic breast clinics, managing patients with breast pain only in a community setting.

This session will focus on highlighting the benefits of community-led care of these patients for both the patient and the provider. It will cover collaborative partnerships; the pathway; how to set up a service; the use of innovative digital solutions for family history risk assessment; patient feedback; and quality and safety case studies examining the clinical outcomes and health economic case including cost-benefit analysis.

John Robertson
John Robertson, Professor of Surgery and Consultant Breast Surgeon - University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Trust
Thilan Bartholomeuz
Dr Thilan Bartholomeuz, GP and Clinical Director - Mid-Nottinghamshire Place Based Partnership
Suzanne Horobin
Suzanne Horobin, Head of Innovation Pipeline Development - Health Innovation East Midlands