Policy paper

Independent Breast Screening Review: government response

The government's response to recommendations made by the Independent Breast Screening Review.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 14 March 2019

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Government response to the Independent Breast Screening Review recommendations

PDF, 145 KB, 17 pages

Details

The Independent Breast Screening Review looked into an incident in the breast screening programme in England, which resulted in thousands of women aged between 68 and 71 not being invited to their final breast screening. The review published its report in December 2018.

This document sets out the government’s response to each recommendation made in the report. The government has accepted all the recommendations.

Published 14 March 2019