Cervical screening: primary HPV screening implementation
Information to aid local providers of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme in implementing high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing.
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This HPV primary screening implementation guidance includes information on:
- roles and responsibilities
- service reconfiguration
- screening tests
- quality assurance
- training
- protocols for screening
- protocols for referral to colposcopy
- centralisation of screening laboratories
Updates to this page
Last updated 22 February 2019 + show all updates
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Updated content in sections 14.1 (inadequate colposcopy) and 14.2.1 (no CIN on biopsy, no biopsy taken or no colposcopic impression of CIN), and in Appendix 2.
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First published.