Guidance

Cervical screening: removing women from routine invitations

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

From:
NHS England
Published
1 February 2004
Last updated
16 April 2025 鈥� See all updates

Applies to England

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Ceasing and deferring women from the NHS Cervical Screening Programme

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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.

Updates to this page

Published 1 February 2004
Last updated 16 April 2025 show all updates

  1. Clarified that this guidance is for the NHS in England. Removed references to PHE and PHE gateway reference number. Colposcopy discharge updates.

  2. In the details, changed 'originally published by Public Health England' to 'previously published by Public Health England'.

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

  4. Guidance document revised and updated.

  5. First published.

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