Cervical Cancer: Screening

(asked on 25th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make cervical screening available to women at every contraception and sexual health clinic; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 2nd February 2017

The NHS Cervical Screening Programme is directly commissioned by NHS England as part of the Section 7A agreement of the National Health Service Act 2006, as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The availability of screening within contraception and sexual health clinics, which are commissioned by local authorities, is a matter for local agreement.

There is also the human papillomavirus (HPV) adolescent vaccination programme for girls which is well established in the United Kingdom and expected to have a significant impact on reducing cervical cancer. Since the start of the programme in 2008, more than 8.5 million doses of the HPV vaccine have been given in the UK, with close to 90% of eligible teenagers vaccinated.

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