{"id":753393,"date":"2026-08-29T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753393\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:42:18","slug":"nhs-western-isles-warning-over-scam-breast-screening-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753393\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Western Isles warning over scam breast screening emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nNHS Western Isles warning over scam breast screening emails&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hebrides-news.com\/cdn-cgi\/content?id=sEvlM1jzBJIQnOLLM4H_iA9fbIapWI_4kJWrooxjAvY-1787992937.0281553-1.2.1.1-yK5zEWIHd5w2o..ojuNe_Cst5NmF_jjVU1CdxMDs2UhjRRZZ8gRxFtgPIUoxg1J3\" aria-hidden=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-P\">NHS Western Isles is urging islanders to be vigilant following a report of a fraudulent&#13;<br \/>\n    email sent to a local patient claiming to be related to a recent breast screening&#13;<br \/>\n    appointment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-P\">The reported email purported to be from a healthcare professional and requested photographs&#13;<br \/>\n    or video recordings to be sent for assessment. Information provided to NHS Western&#13;<br \/>\n    Isles confirms the email originated from a non-NHS email address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-P\">A health board spokesperson said: \u201cNHS Western Isles would like to reassure the public&#13;<br \/>\n    that breast screening services do not contact patients using personal or non-NHS&#13;<br \/>\n    email addresses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-P\">\u201cPatients may be contacted by letter or telephone regarding breast screening appointments,&#13;<br \/>\n    results, or follow-up arrangements, but NHS staff would never ask patients to send&#13;<br \/>\n    photographs or videos by email.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-P\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wpfe5f9c4b_05.jpg\" width=\"741\" height=\"523\" border=\"0\" id=\"pic_4\" name=\"pic_4\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ufeff&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; NHS Western Isles warning over scam breast screening emails&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[248666,248664,34988,102,2960,248665,248662,248663,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-and-hebrides-news-funeral-notices","tag-calmac-ferries-and-loganair-updates","tag-community-events","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-local-achievements","tag-nhs-western-isles-warning-over-scam-breast-screening-emails","tag-regular-updates-from-the-outer-hebrides-including-western-isles-weather-and-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}