Guidance

Breast screening: interval cancers and duty of candour toolkit

Guidance on the role of breast screening and symptomatic services in identifying interval cancer and giving results to patients.

From:
NHS England
Published
11 December 2017
Last updated
29 July 2025 鈥� See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Interval cancers and applying duty of candour

Ref: PHE Gateway number 2017648

HTML

Ref: PHE Gateway number 2017648

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Breast screening: information sheet for women diagnosed with breast cancer

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Ref: PHE Gateway number 2017648

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Details

These documents are a toolkit of guidance on interval breast cancers for healthcare professionals to use when applying the duty of candour.

The toolkit includes:

  • guidance on interval cancers and applying duty of candour
  • an HTML and PDF version of an information leaflet for women about being diagnosed with breast cancer between screening appointments (the PDF version is available for trusts wishing to print the document for a patient)
  • a PDF format infographic about interval cancers (to print out as required)
  • a flowchart showing the application of duty of candour

Updates to this page

Published 11 December 2017
Last updated 29 July 2025 show all updates

  1. Changed lead organisation from Public Health England to NHS England. Removed reference to screening helpdesk.

  2. Added accessible version of 'Breast screening: information sheet for women diagnosed with breast cancer'.

  3. Added section: Dates to apply duty of candour.

  4. Added flowchart with information for screening and symptomatic services informing women about disclosure of audit and duty of candour.

  5. First published.

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