Good Practice Guides
Good Practice Guide No 1: Consent to breast screening
Published November 1998
Good Practice Guide No 3: NBSS use of action and end codes
Published March 2000
Good Practice Guide No 4: Collecting, recording, monitoring and reporting technical recall/repeat examinations
Published May 2000
Guide to Good Office Practice
Guide to Good Office Practice No 1: Clients out of step
Published November 1992
Guide to Good Office Practice No 2: Failsafe Batches
Published November 1992
Guide to Good Office Practice No 3: Screening office procedures for women who move practice/district
Published Revised January 1997
Guide to Good Office Practice No 4: Monitoring the NHSBSP - calculation of breast screening performance
Published August 1994
Guide to Good Office Practice No 5: Recording Biopsy Type
Revised June 1996
Guide to Good Office Practice No 6: The Right Result
Replaced by NHSBSP 55: Guide to the correct processing and issuing of results | Summary | Download PDF (457Kb)
Guide to Good Office Practice No 7: Induction guide for New Breast Screening Unit Managers
Published January 1997
Guide to Good Office Practice No 8: Call/Recall Status: Cease and Suspend
Published May 1997
- NHSBSP home page
- Programme publications
- About breast screening
- What is breast screening?
- What does the NHS Breast Screening Programme do?
- When was the NHS Breast Screening Programme set up?
- What happens at a breast screening unit?
- Why are women under 50 not routinely invited?
- Are women screened over the age of 70?
- Screening women at higher risk
- Does breast screening save lives?
- Does breast screening have any risks?
- What is Digital Mammography?
- Research in breast screening
- About breast cancer
- Programme logistics
- Frequently asked questions
- Programme statistics
- Mammography equipment reports
- Programme news index
- Useful links
