NHSBSP: Resources for the public

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.
Breast screening: The facts
Breast screening: The facts; large print version
Breast screening: The facts; (In 18 other languages)
Also incorporated within a British Sign Language DVD and an Audio CD set.

Over 70? You are still entitled to breast screening

This leaflet tells women over 70 that they are entitled to request breast screening every three years. It explains the risks of breast cancer and encourages older women to be breast aware.

Over 70? You are still entitled to breast screening (in six languages)
Also incorporated within a British Sign Language DVD and an Audio CD set.

Breast implants and breast screening

Leaflet is designed to give women information about how breast implants affect mammography.

Breast implants and breast screening

Be Breast Aware

A leaflet produced by the NHS Breast Screening Programme and the Cancer Research UK

Be Breast Aware (available in 19 languages)
Be Breast Aware; large print version
Also incorporated within a British Sign Language DVD and an Audio CD set.

Breast Screening: A Pocket Guide

This booklet is a simple guide to breast screening designed for anyone who works or takes an interest in the breast screening programme.

Breast Screening: A Pocket Guide

An Easy Guide to Breast Screening

A picture leaflet for women with a learning disability to tell them about breast screening and where to get more information.

An Easy Guide to Breast Screening

Breast Screening: Your Health, Your Choice (DVD)

Aimed at women in the Chinese and South Asian communities, explains how the NHS Breast Screening Programme is organised, what is involved in having a mammogram and the benefits and difficulties associated with screening.

Breast Screening: Your Health, Your Choice (DVD)

Programme Promotion Posters

High resolution PDF files of the screening programme posters produced by the NHSCSP.

Posters (programme promotion)