Guidance

Breast screening: issuing provisional or verbal pathology reports

This guidance is for pathologists issuing provisional or verbal reports. It aims to help reduce risk of patient mismanagement.

Applies to England

Documents

Issuing provisional or verbal pathology reports

Details

This document provides guidance on:

  • provisional pathology reports
  • verbal pathology reports
  • scheduling multidisciplinary team meetings

Updates to this page

Published 17 July 2020
Last updated 1 August 2025 show all updates
  1. Changed lead organisation from Public Health England to NHS England.

  2. First published.

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