WOMEN needing mammograms in Bromley will have to wait longer for a new unit to be opened.

Currently the Bromley Breast Screening Service is based in a mobile unit in a car park in Masons Hill, Bromley.

The Primrose Foundation set up in 2002 aimed to raise enough money to convert the old chapel on the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRU) site in Farnborough into a new unit for breast care services.

Besieged with problems, the building has now been converted at a cost of half a million pounds but it is still not operational.

The Primrose Foundation started off under the umbrella of Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust but in September 2007 it separated, forming a new charity- the Primrose Centre.

The main issue is over the ownership of the building- the hospital trust or the charity.

According to the Land Registry CHECK the chapel currently belongs to the hospital trust but the Primrose Centre charity have lodged an appeal to have this changed as the director believes it was given to them.

A spokesperson for Bromley Hospitals Trust said: “The Trust and the Primrose Foundation continue to be involved in very complex negotiations with the Primrose Centre about their plans to convert the redundant chapel into a breast care centre.”

Primrose Centre director, Mary Spinks, said: “This ‘time’ element has not been helped by the changing of senior people such as CEOs.

“Having personally spent six years to achieve the Primrose Centre it is not my intention to rest at the final hurdle.

“Along with the other Trustees I look forward to its opening.”

“We feel sure agreements and promises will be honoured and the trustees of the Primrose Centre and the hospital trust will work together to achieve the end result of an excellent centre.”