Our Breast Care units are based at Maidstone Hospital (the Peggy Wood Breast Care Centre, Brown Zone) and at Tunbridge Wells Hospital (Outpatients, Zone 2).

How to find us.

The units offer a range of specialist services including:

• One-stop clinics led by specialist breast clinicians, which aim to diagnose and treat patients within two weeks of GP referral
• A multidisciplinary team approach to care, with weekly team meetings and key workers allocated to all newly-diagnosed cancer patients
• Image-guided biopsy, digital mammography and breast ultrasound on both sites
• Access to breast MRI, PET scans and stereotactic upright and prone biopsy
• Where necessary, access to immediate or delayed breast reconstruction either at Maidstone Hospital or in conjunction with surgeons from the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
• Joint clinics with specialist breast oncologists from the Kent Oncology Centre, ensuring rapid access to chemotherapy and radiotherapy
• Access to Breast Care Nurse Specialist support from the time of diagnosis
• A full range of diagnostic services including comprehensive pathology and tumour immunohistochemistry (ER, PR, HER2, E-Cadherin etc), CT and MR scanners, isotope bone scanning and bone density DEXA scanning
• Family history clinics
• Nurse-led breast pain clinic
• West Kent NHS Breast Screening Programme

A wide range of support services is also available, including:

• Breast cancer support groups including groups for younger women and patients with secondary breast cancer
• Counselling service at the Kent Oncology Centre
• Specialist lymphoedema treatment clinics
• Access to volunteer peer support
• Look Good, Feel Better programme (at the Kent Oncology Centre)
• Patient information and resources
• Access to palliative care support and hospice care, where necessary.

Resources

• Know your breasts leaflet

Information for men

• What is gynaecomastia?
• Breast cancer in men

Information for transgender/non-binary people

• NHS population screening: information for trans and non-binary people

Maidstone offers a pathway for transgender/non-binary people eligible for a screening mammogram but not invited. The number to call for this service is: 01622 225760 or 01622 225761

NHS Breast Screening Programme

• Breast screening (mammogram)

We have a dedicated breast screening service which is part of Kent’s NHS Breast Screening Programme. The service screens in the Peggy Wood Breast Unit at Maidstone Hospital and on two mobile breast screening vans that travel to locations in West Kent:

• Sevenoaks
• Tunbridge Wells
• Tonbridge
• Cranbrook
• Larkfield
• Edenbridge
• Maidstone.