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Update letter and guidance from Prof Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer.
Information for health professionals about how, and in what circumstances, women can opt out temporarily or permanently from breast screening.
Information about seafarer working and living rights - working conditions, conditions of employment, safe working practices, living conditions, dangerous cargo, health and medical care, maritime labour convention, human element
Routine quality control test procedures for full field digital mammography (FFDM) systems in NHS breast screening programmes.
Guidelines for calculating quantitative image quality parameters for x-ray detectors in breast screening.
An outline of professional responsibilities in breast screening radiology including quality standards, standards for working practice, and interval cancers.
Biopsy testing guidance for the NHS breast screening programme (BSP).
Guidance for specific scenarios where a woman may attend her screening appointment, but not have images taken.
Procedures for reporting, recording and auditing B5 core biopsies for normal or benign surgery.
Update on PIP silicone gel breast implants.
This document provides guidance to breast screening services on management of, and best practice for, screening office administration.
12 week maternal assessment and breastfeeding initiation.
Certain approaches and tools succeed in improving maternal diets, breastfeeding and complementary feeding
How to report, classify and monitor interval cancers and cancers following previous assessment.
This sets out the standards of practice for clinical nurse specialists working in the NHS breast screening programme.
Guidance on the role of breast screening and symptomatic services in identifying interval cancer and giving results to patients.
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