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NHS Cervical Screening Programme

2017 to 2018 screening service specifications: the main changes

...of screening new links to promotion of vaccinations in pregnancy and reporting viral rash reinforcing the importance of sexual health awareness and protection in pregnancy follow-up of women who miscarry...

Making data available to help improve cervical screening attendance

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For the first time ever, we’re publishing detailed cervical screening coverage data by GP practice.  Coverage is the proportion of women eligible for screening who have a test result recorded in the last 3 or 5 years, depending on their age.

New leaflet aims to improve accessibility to screening for transgender people

We aim to make screening accessible and inclusive for all eligible populations. For people who are trans (transgender) or non-binary (any gender that is not exclusively male or female), inequalities may exist because...

EQA (external quality assessment) in cervical screening: what's it all about?

...National Portfolio Lead for Cervical Screening. This means I have responsibility for representing cervical screening within the Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS). I thought it would be useful to explain...

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....