Guidance

Breast screening: issuing provisional or verbal pathology reports

This guidance is for pathologists issuing provisional or verbal reports. It aims to help reduce risk of patient mismanagement.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 17 July 2020
• Last updated: 1 August 2025
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  1. 1 August 2025

     Changed lead organisation from Public Health England to NHS England.

  2. 17 July 2020

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Issuing provisional or verbal pathology reports

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: GW-1410

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This document provides guidance on:

• provisional pathology reports
• verbal pathology reports
• scheduling multidisciplinary team meetings