Guidance

Breast screening: GP pre-screening pack

Breast screening services can send this pack to GP practices before their patients are invited for screening, to ensure invitations go to the correct people.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 30 July 2021

Applies to England

Documents

Template email request to GP practice for patient information

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Template breast screening service information for local GPs

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Patient information form for completion by GP practice

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Details

This pack provides 3 resources for NHS breast screening services to send to their local GP practices 6 weeks before their patients are due to be invited for breast screening.

The 2 open document text resources are for services to add their own information before sending to the GP practice. The Excel spreadsheet is for data collection from the practice.

The resources are:

• a template email for breast screening services to send to GPs to request patient information
• a form for GP practices to complete when providing patient information requested by their breast screening service
• a template document to provide GP practices with information about their local breast screening service and about breast screening

Contact the PHE Screening helpdesk with any queries about this publication, making sure you include its full title.

Published 30 July 2021