Breast Screening: The Facts

Designed to ensure that women are told what screening can and cannot achieve, the leaflet includes an explanation about false positive and false negative results, and addresses the need to inform patients about the use made of personal information for audit, as set out in the General Medical Council guidance on confidentiality.

This means that women should be able to make a genuinely informed choice based on an understanding about why they are attending for screening, and what happens to their records after being screened. The information will be sent to all women in England with their invitation for breast screening.

Printed January 2007

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Copies of the English leaflet can be obtained free of charge from the Department of Health publication orderline by emailing dh@prolog.uk.com, or telephoning 08701 555 455, Fax: 01623 724 524. Translations of the leaflet are available as downloads only (see list above). A Braille version of 'Breast Screening - THE FACTS and audio tapes in English, Bengali, Cantonese, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu are also available from these contact details.