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New leaflet aims to improve accessibility to screening for transgender people
We aim to make screening accessible and inclusive for all eligible populations.
NHS Cervical Screening Programme
What GPs need to know about the introduction of primary HPV testing in cervical screening
Cervical screening saves an estimated 5,000 lives a year by detecting abnormalities of the cervix early and referring women for effective treatment.
EQA (external quality assessment) in cervical screening: what's it all about?
The breast, bowel and cervical screening programmes require consultant pathologists and other specialist laboratory staff to take part in ‘external quality assessment’ or EQA. But what is EQA exactly?
Exciting changes ahead for e-learning
Public Health England doesn’t directly train people how to carry out screening in the NHS. We’d love to visit you all but sadly don’t have the resources to do this.
Deciding how best to roll out HPV testing as the primary cervical screening test
Evidence shows that human papillomavirus (HPV) testing is a better way of identifying women at risk of cervical cancer than the cytology (smear) test that examines cells under a microscope.
NHS Cervical Screening Programme approves new HPV tests and issues guidance for laboratories
Cervical screening saves an estimated 5,000 lives a year by detecting abnormalities of the cervix early and referring women for effective treatment.
PHE and NHS England join forces to help cervical screening laboratories clear backlogs
Cervical screening prevents cancer by detecting abnormalities of the cervix and referring women for potential treatment.
Cervical screening sample taker training guidance published
We are pleased to publish the sample taker training guidance for the NHS Cervical Screening Programme, replacing the previous publication ‘A Resource Pack for Trainers’ (April 2006).
International delegates told of HPV primary screening rollout challenges
PHE screening team members and clinicians attended the 40th European Congress of Cytology in Liverpool.
PHE announces help for cervical screening laboratories
The NHS Cervical Screening Programme in England relies on laboratories to screen and report on cervical cytology samples (3.2 million were examined in 2014-15).