1. Introduction

This document presents an analysis of an online survey in August 2009 of SoR members carrying out breast screening in the UK. Respondents were asked about their workload, nominal appointment lengths and their opinions of the effects of setting nominal appointment lengths.

The survey was anonymous and covered as many members specialising in mammography as possible. We identified 1032 potential subjects from the SoR membership database and emailed to ask if they would complete the online questionnaire. The questionnaire was completed by 223 individuals. The vast majority of respondents carried out breast screening in the NHS as part of a national screening programme. However 15 respondents worked in breast screening for private, independent or charitable organisations. Due to the low number of non-NHS responses, these results are given separately and cannot be considered necessarily representative of the wider non-NHS workforce.

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