Guidance

Breast screening: screening office management

This document provides guidance to breast screening services on management of, and best practice for, screening office administration.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

This guidance covers:

  • commissioning arrangements
  • patient confidentiality and information governance
  • IT systems access and support
  • advice on paper-free and paper-light practices
  • communications with GPs

This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

Updates to this page

Published 30 July 2021
Last updated 21 May 2025 show all updates
  1. Added guidance on paper-free and paper-light working within breast screening. Updated contact details and links.

  2. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  3. First published.

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