Breast screening: professional guidance
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
Guidance on the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017 is available for employers and health professionals who carry out medical radiological procedures.
Consolidated programme standards
Programme guidelines
Programme standards and guidance for breast pathology can be found on the Royal College of Pathologists website
Quality assurance guidelines for surgeons in breast screening are available from the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS). Select ‘breast screening’ from the ‘Guidance Platform’, download the ABS Breast Screening Guidance, and select the link for QA guidelines.
- Breast screening: implementing remote image reading
- Breast screening: reporting breast images from home
- Breast screening: remote radiographic supervision
- Breast screening: assistant practitioner pilot report
- Breast screening: guidance on overseas recruitment
- Breast screening: failsafe batches
- Breast screening: clinical guidelines for screening assessment
- Breast screening: quality assurance standards in radiology
- Breast screening: quality assurance guidelines for breast pathology services
- Breast screening: guidance for breast screening mammographers
- Breast screening: interval cancers
- Breast screening: programme specific operating model
- Breast screening: leading a service
- Breast screening: guidance for clinical nurse specialists
Good practice in breast screening
- Breast screening: issuing provisional or verbal pathology reports
- Breast screening: arbitration guidance
- Breast screening: copying letters about clients
- Breast screening: set and maintain round length
- Breast screening: managing B5 core malignant biopsies
- Breast screening: ergonomics in screening mammography
- Breast screening: how to record vacuum-assisted excisions
- Breast screening: imaging women with breast implants
- Breast screening: interval cancers and duty of candour toolkit
- Breast screening: manage mammograms and records
- Breast screening: repeat mammograms
- Breast screening: women wanting to attend service out of area
- Breast screening: supporting women with learning disabilities
- Breast screening: transferring specimens between laboratories
- Breast screening: Right Results audit
- Breast screening: digital breast tomosynthesis
- Breast screening: guidance on partial or incomplete screening mammography
- Breast screening: women not registered with a GP practice
Screening women at very high risk
Consenting and withdrawing from the programme
Research and reviews
Quality control and testing
- Breast screening: routine quality control tests for breast tomosynthesis
- Breast screening: routine tomosynthesis quality control
- Breast screening: acquisition and testing of ultrasound scanners
- Breast screening: calculate image quality parameters
- Breast screening: digital mammography testing and commissioning
- Breast screening: routine quality control tests for FFDM
General equipment guidance
Screening equipment and medical physics services
Equipment technical evaluations
- Breast screening: GE Senographe Pristina system in 2D mode
- Breast screening: IMS Giotto Class digital mammography system in 2D mode
- Technical evaluation of Hologic Affirm prone biopsy system
- Breast screening: Hologic 3Dimensions DBT system
- Breast screening: Hologic 3D digital mammography system in 2D mode
- Siemens Revelation digital mammography system in 2D mode evaluation
- Siemens Revelation digital breast tomosynthesis evaluation
- Breast screening: GE Senographe Pristina DBT system evaluation
- Breast screening: Siemens Mammomat Inspiration VB60
- Breast screening: IMS Giotto Class DBT system
- Breast screening: Fujifilm AMULET Innovality DBT system
- Breast screening: technical evaluation of Fujifilm Innovality
- Breast screening: Siemens Inspiration PRIME mammo
- Breast screening: technical evaluation of Philips MicroDose SI Digital mammo
- Breast screening: technical evaluation of GE SenoClaire DBT system
- Breast screening: Siemens Mammomat Inspiration DBT
- Breast screening: Hologic Selenia Dimensions DBT
Equipment practical evaluations
- Breast screening: Siemens Mammomat Revelation evaluation
- Breast screening: Hologic 3Dimensions in tomosynthesis mode
- Breast screening: IMS Giotto Class evaluation
- Breast screening: GE Healthcare Senographe Pristina DBT System
- Breast screening: GE Healthcare Senographe Pristina 2D system
- Breast screening: Siemens Inspiration PRIME system
- Breast screening: Hologic 3Dimensions in 2D mode
- Breast screening: Fujifilm Amulet Innovality DBT system evaluation
- Breast screening: Hologic 3Dimensions in 2D mode
- Breast screening: Hologic Affirm Prone Biopsy System
- Breast screening: practical evaluation of Fujifilm Innovality
- Breast screening: practical evaluation of Philips MicroDose SI Digital mammo
- Breast screening: practical evaluation of GE SenoClaire DBT system
- Breast screening: Hologic Affirm DBT biopsy system
- Breast screening: Hologic Selenia Dimensions DBT system
Last updated 2 February 2021 + show all updates
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Added link to Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) for 'Quality assurance guidelines for surgeons in breast screening'.
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Added guidance on Partial or incomplete screening mammography.
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Added 'Hologic 3Dimensions digital mammography system in 2D mode', 'IMS Giotto Class digital mammography system in 2D mode' and 'GE Senographe Pristina digital mammography system in 2D mode'.
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Added 3 new reports: Implementing remote image reading, Reporting breast images from home and Remote radiographic supervision.
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Added Breast screening: quality assurance guidelines for breast pathology services.
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Added Hologic 3Dimensions in tomosynthesis mode, Siemens Mammomat Revelation evaluation and IMS Giotto Class evaluation.
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Added Issuing provisional or verbal pathology reports to Good practice in breast screening section.
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Added new guidance on overseas recruitment for local breast screening services.
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Added GE Healthcare Senographe Pristina DBT system evaluation.
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Added Siemens Inspiration PRIME system and GE Healthcare Senographe Pristina 2D system.
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Added link to guidance on opting out of breast screening.
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Added Fujifilm Amulet Innovality DBT and Hologic 3Dimensions in 2D mode system practical evaluations.
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Added 'Breast screening: transferring specimens between laboratories' document.
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Added 'Breast screening: failsafe batches' to Programme Guidelines section.
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Addition of guidance for clinical nurse specialists to document collection
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Added 'Breast screening: GE Senographe Pristina DBT system evaluation' report.
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Added 'Breast screening: Siemens Mammomat Inspiration VB60' to Equipment Technical Evaluations list.
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Added 'Breast screening programme: supporting women with learning disabilities'.
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Added 'Breast screening: IMS Giotto Class DBT system'.
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Addition of new guidance on leading a breast screening programme to document collection
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Addition of new ergonomics in mammography guidance to document collection.
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Addition of Breast screening: how to record vacuum-assisted excisions to document collection
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Added technical evaluation of the Fujifilm AMULET Innovality digital breast tomosynthesis system.
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Added out-of-area guidance and duty of candour toolkit to collection.
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Added 'Breast screening: radiation risk with digital mammography' to new 'research and reviews' group.
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Added interval cancer guidance and programme specific operating model.
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Added implants imaging guidance and consolidated standards.
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Added arbitration guidance.
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Technical evaluation of Siemans Inspiration PRIME mammography system added.
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Added digital tomosynthesis system evaluation.
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Added 2 new documents under equipment.
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Added previously-published quality assurance documents to breast screening professional guidance.
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