Messages about breast screening: guidelines for health promotion specialists, primary care teams and screening unit staff
Published April 1995 | ISBN 1 87199 712 7 | Archived
This document is aimed at professionals working within health education and health promotion at a primary care level, as well as those working within the NHS Breast Screening Programme, to ensure that women are given appropriate and accurate messages about the breast screening programme.
The content includes information available to women, their families and the public about breast cancer, breast screening and breast awareness as well as information given to individual women when they are invited for screening and throughout the screening process.
Copies are no longer available.
- 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?
- 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