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Breast screening: professional guidance

• From: Public Health England
• Part of: NHS breast screening (BSP) programme
• Published: 1 June 2015
• Last updated: 12 April 2017, see all updates

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

Breast screening: commissioning and testing of x-ray systems is published by Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Consolidated programme standards

1. Breast screening: consolidated programme standards

   • 10 April 2017
   • Guidance

Programme guidelines

Programme standards and guidance for breast pathology can be found on the Royal College of Pathologists website

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

   • 1 December 2012
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: quality assurance guidelines for surgeons

   • 1 March 2009
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: clinical guidelines for screening assessment

   • 15 November 2016
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: external quality assessment for histopathology

   • 1 October 2003
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: quality assurance standards in radiology

   • 1 March 2011
   • Guidance

6. Breast screening: quality assurance visits

   • 1 October 2000
   • Guidance

7. Breast screening: quality assurance for mammography and radiography

   • 1 April 2006
   • Guidance

8. Breast screening: administrative and clerical quality assurance

   • 1 November 2000
   • Guidance

9. Breast screening: organising a programme

   • 1 December 2002
   • Guidance

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

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

   • 1 July 2008
   • Guidance

9. Breast screening: imaging women with breast implants

   • 12 April 2017
   • Guidance

Screening 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

Consenting and withdrawing from the programme

1. Cancer screening: informed consent

   • 1 January 2009
   • Guidance

Quality control and testing

1. Breast screening: routine quality control tests for FFDM

   • 1 October 2013
   • Guidance

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

   • 30 December 2015
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: routine tomosynthesis quality control

   • 1 August 2014
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: acquisition and testing of ultrasound scanners

   • 30 April 2011
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: digital mammography testing and commissioning

   • 30 April 2009
   • Guidance

6. Breast screening: calculate image quality parameters

   • 1 April 2009
   • Guidance

General equipment guidance

1. Breast screening: guidance notes and protocol for equipment evaluation

   • 1 September 2014
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: ionising radiation regulations (2000,2006)

   • 1 August 2014
   • Guidance

Screening equipment and medical physics services

1. Breast screening: electrical supply in mobile trailers

   • 1 July 2012
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: mobile screening unit specification

   • 1 October 2009
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: mammography unit ergonomic assessment

   • 1 October 2007
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: quality assurance for medical physics services

   • 1 June 2005
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: digital breast tomosynthesis

   • 1 September 2010
   • Guidance

6. Breast screening: tomosynthesis position statement

   • 10 May 2016
   • Correspondence

Equipment technical evaluations

1. Breast screening: Siemens Inspiration PRIME mammo

   • 29 March 2016
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: Siemens Mammomat Inspiration DBT

   • 1 January 2015
   • Guidance

3. Breast screening: Hologic Selenia Dimensions DBT

   • 1 August 2014
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: technical evaluation of Fujifilm Innovality

   • 24 February 2017
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: technical evaluation of GE SenoClaire DBT system

   • 29 January 2016
   • Guidance

6. Breast screening: technical evaluation of Philips MicroDose SI Digital mammo

   • 1 February 2016
   • Guidance

Equipment practical evaluations

1. Breast screening: practical evaluation of GE SenoClaire DBT system

   • 29 January 2016
   • Guidance

2. Breast screening: Hologic Affirm DBT biopsy system

   • 30 December 2015
   • Research and analysis

3. Breast screening: Hologic Selenia Dimensions DBT system

   • 1 July 2014
   • Guidance

4. Breast screening: practical evaluation of Fujifilm Innovality

   • 24 February 2017
   • Guidance

5. Breast screening: practical evaluation of Philips MicroDose SI Digital mammo

   • 15 March 2016
   • Guidance

Document information

Published: 1 June 2015

Updated: 12 April 2017

+ full page history

1. 12 April 2017 Added implants imaging guidance and consolidated standards.
2. 31 August 2016 Added arbitration guidance.
3. 29 March 2016 Technical evaluation of Siemans Inspiration PRIME mammography system added.
4. 29 January 2016 Added digital tomosynthesis system evaluation.
5. 30 December 2015 Added 2 new documents under equipment.
6. 5 October 2015 Added previously-published quality assurance documents to breast screening professional guidance.
7. 1 June 2015 First published.

From: Public Health England

Part of: NHS breast screening (BSP) programme