Guidance

Somerset: breast screening programme

Executive summary of the quality assurance (QA) visit to the Somerset NHS breast screening programme on 3 March 2020.

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QA report: Somerset NHS Breast Screening Programme

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Details

Quality assurance (QA) visits are carried out by the Public Health England screening quality assurance service (SQAS). The evidence for this report comes from:

  • routine monitoring data collected by the NHS screening programmes
  • data and reports from external organisations
  • evidence submitted by the provider(s), commissioner and external organisations
  • information collected during pre-visits to review pathology reports and slides, radiology and surgical performance, and from attendance at multidisciplinary team meetings
  • information shared with the south regional SQAS as part of the visit process
Published 31 August 2020