Guidance

Breast screening: set and maintain round length

Procedures to ensure the interval between breast screening and invitation for the next screen is 36 months for all eligible women.

Documents

Appendix 3: how to create batches

Details

The time interval between screening and invitation is the round length.

This publication sets out guidelines for breast screening services to meet a 36 month round length.

It includes information about:

  • building a new screening plan
  • maintaining the time interval
  • reasons the target round length gets missed

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

Updates to this page

Published 1 May 2008
Last updated 24 October 2019 + show all updates
  1. Updated December 2018 guidance.

  2. Updated to take account of the Breast Screening Select system, the call/recall function administered by screening services.

  3. First published.

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