Guidance and regulation

Information on the NHS breast screening programme to help eligible women make a personal informed choice about whether to take part.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 11 January 2024

• NHS breast screening: helping you decide

  It is your choice whether to have breast screening or not. This leaflet…

Read an overview of the NHS breast screening programme (BSP), and learn how to contact the programme.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 28 June 2023

Resources to support screening professionals in their initial training and continuing professional development (CPD).

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 11 July 2023

Guidance for local NHS screening services on how to order and access printed and digital population screening leaflets.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 27 August 2020

An easy read leaflet about breast screening.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 29 June 2023

The processes for managing safety incidents in the NHS screening programmes.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 27 March 2024

Guidance on the mammographic aspects (both clinical and technical) of breast screening QA and the quality control of radiographic procedures.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 16 September 2020

The NHS breast surveillance protocols for women at very high risk of developing breast cancer.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 16 August 2023

NHSBSP Publication No 49: clinical guidelines for healthcare professionals screening women for breast cancer.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 15 November 2016

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

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 4 May 2023

This information is for women aged 71 or over. These women no longer receive breast screening invitations, but can request breast screening every 3 years.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 4 August 2022

Information about the NHS population screening programmes available to transgender and non-binary people in England.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 4 January 2023

Training and continuing professional development (CPD) for people working in the NHS breast screening programme (BSP) in England.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 4 May 2023

This document describes the breast screening pathway.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 17 June 2021

An outline of professional responsibilities in breast screening radiology including quality standards, standards for working practice, and interval cancers.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 16 February 2023

How to support patients in accessing population screening programmes and obtaining screening results.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 25 January 2024

Guidance for radiologists, radiographic consultant practitioners, breast clinicians and radiographic advanced practitioners undertaking breast screening.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 11 March 2024

Information for health professionals about how, and in what circumstances, women can opt out temporarily or permanently from breast screening.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 13 July 2023

Role and remit of NHS population screening programmes’ Research, Innovation and Development Advisory Committee

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 29 September 2021

Information for breast screening service staff about how to organise very high risk (VHR) screening as part of the NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHS BSP).

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 30 November 2021