Breast Screening in the UK – a National Quality Assured Programme

Carcinoma of the Breast, the National Screening Programme

Broadly speaking we are in a mess over breast carcinoma. It has always been so and anyone industrious enough to study the literature in depth will have realised it. Despite the past twenty years of frenetic investigation, therapeutic revolution and comprehensive trials, the end results are not improved. Perhaps the only time when I recall that the whole enterprise was seemingly well appreciated...

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 Singapore National Breast Screening Programme: principles and implementation.

The Singapore Breast Screening Project (1993-1996) showed that mammographic screening in Singaporean women shifts the size and stage of screen-detected breast cancers downwards and markedly increases the rate of detection of ductal carcinoma in situ, with acceptable recall, needle biopsy and interval cancer rates. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in Singaporean women. Singapore has o...

mesuring the staff technology readiness, the case of a multi national chemical company operating in iran

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Screening for Prostate Cancer Review against programme appraisal criteria for the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC)