Guidance

Cervical screening: removing women from routine invitations

How programme staff can stop invitations to women who do not require cervical screening.

Documents

Ceasing and deferring women from the NHS Cervical Screening Programme

Details

Healthcare professionals should use this process to stop invitation letters being sent to women who no longer require cervical screening for medical reasons or personal choice.

This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

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Published 1 February 2004
Last updated 27 September 2024 + show all updates
  1. In the details, changed 'originally published by Public Health England' to 'previously published by Public Health England'.

  2. Added clarification that publication was originally published by Public Health England.

  3. Guidance document revised and updated.

  4. First published.

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