tailieunhanh - European guidelines for quality assurance in breast cancer screening and diagnosis

The quality assurance teams and managers supported the evolution of the breast screening programme locally, and professional quality assurance groups were developed with the relevant associations and royal colleges at a national level. In 1990, a new post of national coordinator of the NHSBSP was established, based at one of the regional heath authori- ties. Mrs Julietta Patnick at the Trent Region in Sheffield was appointed, and she is now the Director of the NHS Cancer Screening Programmes, which includes the NHSBSP. Most breast screening units in England had opened by 1990, with the final few opening in 1992. By 1993, most. | Roman_pages 14-03-2006 14 06 Pagina I Health Consumer Protection y Directorate-General European guidelines for quality assurance in breast cancer screening and diagnosis Fourth Edition Editors N. Perry M. Breeders C. de Wolf S. Tornberg R. Holland L. von Karsa Technical editor E. Puthaar This document has been prepared with financial support from the European Commission grant agreement . The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission and are in no way an indication of the Commission s future position in this area. Neither the Commission nor any person acting on its behalf can be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information in this document. Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number 00 800 6 78 9 10 11 Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed. A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server http . Further information on the Health Consumer Protection Directorate-General is available at http comm dgs health_consumer Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 2006 ISBN 92-79-01258-4 European Communities 2006 Printed in Belgium Printed on white chlorine-free paper Roman pages 20-09-2005 21 01 Pagina III Jan . Hendriks 1941-2004 This edition is dedicated to the memory of our colleague and friend Jan Hendriks who pioneered the quality assurance of breast radiology in The Netherlands and throughout Europe N. Perry Breast Assessment Centre The West Wing Breast Care Centre St Bartholomew s Hospital London EC1A 7 BE United Kingdom M. Broeders Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics eUref Office 451 Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen PO