Breast

Summary

In 1996, the Department of Health published a document called Improving Outcomes in Breast Cancer. It recommended which healthcare professionals should be involved in the treatment, management and care of women with breast cancer. It also recommended how these services should be organised so that women with breast cancer across England and Wales would receive high-quality healthcare.

NICE has now published an updated version of this document. Further recommendations have been added and some of the original recommendations have been updated. The key recommendations are:

• Women should be treated by a multidisciplinary team
• Women should be treated promptly
• Services should be more consistent
• Intensive, hospital-based follow-up is not beneficial

Documents

For healthcare professionals

• Appendices from the original (1996) manual
• Improving Outcomes in breast cancer - Research evidence
• Improving outcomes in breast cancer - Manual update

For patients, carers and the public

• Improving outcomes in breast cancer - Information for the public

Background information

• Covering letter

Implementing this guidance

Any further information NICE has produced to help the NHS implement this guideline locally is linked to below:

• None found