Cervical Screening

Claire Cooper from Abingdon in Oxfordshire admits when she received a letter in November 2022 to attend a cervical screening, she put it off for months.

Women and people with a cervix are being urged to opt-in to free screening programmes. They detect the HPV virus, which is the main cause of cervical cancer.

Researchers collected data from 1.3 million women and found introducing HPV testing at longer intervals 'is at least as safe' as more regular testing.