Population screening programmes – collection

Breast screening: professional guidance

Leaflets, standards and guidance for health professionals, managers and commissioners working in the NHS breast screening programme.

Contents

Programme guidance and standards

1. Cancer screening: informed consent

   • 1 January 2009
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: organising a programme

   • 1 December 2002
   • Guidance

3. NHS breast screening: non operative diagnostic procedures

   • 1 June 2001
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: administrative and clerical quality assurance

   • 1 November 2000
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: screen detected ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)

   • 1 July 2008
   • Guidance

Higher risk women

1. Breast screening: higher risk women who are pregnant or lactating

   • 1 May 2012
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: using MRI with higher risk women

   • 1 December 2012
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: higher risk women surveillance protocols

   • 1 June 2013
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: surveillance screening of higher risk women

   • 1 March 2013
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: working party report on higher risk women

   • 1 February 2015
   • Research and analysis

Good practice in breast screening

1. Breast screening: arbitration guidance

   • 31 August 2016
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: set and maintain round length

   • 1 May 2008
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: copying letters about clients

   • 1 July 2005
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: manage mammograms and records

   • 1 January 2001
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: managing B5 core malignant biopsies

   • 1 November 2007
   • Guidance

6. Breast screening: repeat mammograms

   • 1 November 2006
   • Guidance

7. Breast screening: processing and issuing results

   • 1 May 2003
   • Guidance

Equipment and quality control

Breast screening: commissioning and testing of x-ray systems published by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) is available from the IPEM site.

1. Breast screening: evaluation of Siemens Inspiration PRIME

   • 29 March 2016
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: evaluations of Philips MicroDose SI

   • 15 March 2016
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: GE Essential tomosynthesis evaluation

   • 29 January 2016
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: routine quality control tests for breast tomosynthesis

   • 30 December 2015
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: evaluation of Hologic Affirm digital system

   • 30 December 2015
   • Research and analysis

6. Breast screening: Siemens Mammomat Inspiration system

   • 1 January 2015
   • Guidance

7. Breast screening: imaging equipment evaluation and protocol

   • 1 September 2014
   • Guidance

8. Breast screening: routine tomosynthesis quality control

   • 1 August 2014
   • Guidance

9. Breast screening: technical evaluation of Hologic Selenia Dimensions system

   • 1 August 2014
   • Guidance

10. Breast screening: ionising radiation regulations

    • 1 August 2014
    • Guidance

11. Breast screening: evaluation of Hologic Selenia Dimensions system

    • 1 July 2014
    • Guidance

12. Breast screening: tomosynthesis position statement

    • 10 May 2016
    • Correspondence

13. Breast screening: full field digital mammography quality control tests

    • 1 October 2013
    • Guidance

14. Breast screening: electrical supply in mobile trailers

    • 1 July 2012
    • Guidance

15. Breast screening: ultrasound scanners standards

    • 30 April 2011
    • Guidance

16. Breast screening: digital breast tomosynthesis

    • 1 September 2010
    • Guidance

17. Breast screening: mobile screening unit specification

    • 1 October 2009
    • Guidance

18. Breast screening: digital mammography testing and commissioning

    • 30 April 2009
    • Guidance

19. Breast screening: calculate image quality parameters

    • 1 April 2009
    • Guidance

20. Breast screening: mammography unit ergonomic assessment

    • 1 October 2007
    • Guidance

21. Breast screening: beam quality selection

    • 1 May 2007
    • Guidance

22. Breast screening: commission and test small field mammography

    • 1 May 2007
    • Guidance

23. Breast screening: Fuji Profect radiography system

    • 1 September 2006
    • Research and analysis

24. Breast screening: quality assurance for medical physics services

    • 1 June 2005
    • Guidance

Quality assurance

1. Breast screening: interval cancer data, April 2003 to March 2005

   • 1 December 2012
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: interim quality assurance guidelines for clinical nurse specialists

   • 1 December 2012
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: quality assurance guidelines for surgeons

   • 1 March 2009
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: quality assurance guidelines for breast pathology services

   • 1 July 2011
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: clinical guidelines for screening assessment

   • 1 June 2010
   • Guidance

6. Breast screening: external quality assessment for histopathology

   • 1 October 2003
   • Guidance

7. Breast screening: quality assurance standards in radiology

   • 1 March 2011
   • Guidance

8. Breast screening: quality assurance visits

   • 1 October 2000
   • Guidance

9. Breast screening: quality assurance for mammography and radiography

   • 1 April 2006
   • Guidance

• Published: 1 June 2015
• Updated: 31 August 2016

+ full page history

• 31 August 2016 9:30am: Added arbitration guidance.
• 29 March 2016 10:39am: Technical evaluation of Siemans Inspiration PRIME mammography system added.
• 29 January 2016 11:53am: Added digital tomosynthesis system evaluation.
• 30 December 2015 11:46am: Added 2 new documents under equipment.
• 5 October 2015 4:16pm: Added previously-published quality assurance documents to breast screening professional guidance.
• 1 June 2015 12:00am: First published.

• From: Public Health England