It follows news yesterday that NHS England has launched a home-testing scheme for some women<\/p>\n
Author: Chloe StjohnPublished 3 hours ago
Last updated 2 hours ago<\/p>\n
A recommendation that’s paved the way for at-home smear tests to be given the go-ahead in England, is to be considered in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
It follows news yesterday that NHS England has launched a home-testing scheme for women who’ve delayed coming forward for cervical screening.<\/p>\n
The test is for HPV which, if left untreated, can lead to cervical cancer.<\/p>\n
The move in England comes after The UK National Screening Committee gave its backing in March.<\/p>\n
Its recommendation states, \u201ccervical screening providers in the 4 UK countries should be allowed to offer a self-sampling test option to women and other people with a cervix who never or rarely attend their routine cervical screening appointments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the NHS determines that self-sampling might be a helpful addition to the programme, the HPV self-sampling option can be offered to these under-screened people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now the Department of Health in Northern Ireland says the Northern Ireland Screening Committee will consider the recommendation and provide the Health Minister with advice for his consideration.<\/p>\n
A statement from the Department said, \u201cThe Department acknowledges today\u2019s announcement from the Department of Health & Social Care. The Northern Ireland Screening Committee will consider the UK National Screening Committee recommendation and will provide the Health Minister with advice for his consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Department continues to encourage all women to attend their cervical screening appointment when invited to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCervical screening saves lives and therefore it is important for women to take up the offer of cervical screening. Anyone experiencing unusual symptoms should contact their GP immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It follows news yesterday that NHS England has launched a home-testing scheme for some women Author: Chloe StjohnPublished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-213254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114744278569607374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}