Does individual programme size affect screening performance? Results from the United Kingdom NHS breast screening programme

Survival rates from interval cancer in NHS breast screening programme.

We thank hospital staff at all four centres for their help with data collection, and Dr David Owens and an anonymous referee for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Contributors: NK helped with the study design, collected and analysed all data, and contributed to writing the initial draft of the paper. AH helped to design the study and contributed to writing the initial draft of the...

Planning for quality in the NHS breast screening programme.

Managing innovation The development of health services world wide has been piecemeal and uncoordinated. Some control has been exerted over health service resources by controlling capital and by manpower strategies, but these are relatively crude methods largely concerned with control of resources and not with quality of health care provided. The main determinant of the quality of health care is...

The Avon Breast Screening Programme

on mortality in the fortyforty-nine age group is still uncertain. The evidence from these trials led the committee to conclude that breast screening can reduce the mortality from breast cancer and this was, therefore, recommended. The whole matter then took on a political significance and it was decided to implement a countrywide screening programme within a very short period, (i.e. by 1990) co...

Computer-aided detection in the United Kingdom National Breast Screening Programme: prospective study.

PURPOSE To evaluate prospectively the recall and cancer detection rates with and without computer-aided detection (CAD) in the United Kingdom National Health Service Breast Screening Programme. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study had appropriate ethics committee approval. Informed consent was not required; however, patients were informed that their mammograms might be used in research efforts, an...

Stratifying the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme: into the unknown?