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Breast screening programme: standards

Screening standards for the NHS breast screening programme (BSP).

Updates to this page

From:
NHS England
Published:
10 April 2017
Last updated:
29 January 2026
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  1. Updated S04b: very high risk screening (shadow)

  2. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  3. Amends to BSP01

  4. Updates made and 'NHS Breast screening programme screening standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2021 - HTML attachment' added

  5. Updated supporting information document due to amendments to standards S04 and S15.

  6. Removal of pathway and themes diagram.

  7. Deleted incorrect detail in standard 15 (BSP-S15).

  8. Added the 'from 1 April 2021 onwards' standards and updated the supporting information to link to these standards.

  9. Breast screening standards updated and reformatted.

  10. Added text to clarify which standards should be used for historical performance.

  11. First published.

Applies to England

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Breast screening supporting information

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NHS Breast screening programme screening standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2021

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NHS Breast screening programme screening standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2017

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These documents present the national screening standards for the NHS Breast Screening Programme (BSP).

See Population screening: our approach to screening standards for the consistent approach taken to screening standards across all 11 NHS screening programmes.

This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

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