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Guidance Published 29 Jul 2025 NHS England ↗ View on GOV.UK

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.

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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