Since the Forrest Report, improvements in diagnosing and treating breast cancer have advanced while improvements in uptake of screening have not. The present study shows that inequalities still exist within the breast cancer screening system. Increasing levels of immigration is resulting in a more diverse nature of our population, thus these inequalities are set to increase. One fundamental objective is to abolish these inequalities. There must be a substantial increase in the uptake rate in both non-Asian and Asian women in all socioeconomic areas so the benefits of better treatment can be accessed. Well structured and funded qualitative research is required to establish why such high levels of nonattendance exist. With the government lengthening the ages women are eligible for screening to 47 to 73 years old, an extra 200,000 women per year are eligible for screening. Unfortunately as has been shown, eligibility does not correlate with attendance – resulting in increasing administration costs and wastage of valuable resources.