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Cervical screening: professional guidance

Standards and guidance for healthcare professionals, managers and commissioners working in the NHS cervical screening programme.

Published 1 February 2004
Last updated 20 September 2019 — see all updates

• From: Public Health England

Liquid based cytology (LBC)

1. Cervical screening: training to use a new cytology system
   • 12 August 2019
   • Guidance

Programme management

1. Cervical screening: role of the cervical screening provider lead
   • 26 March 2018
   • Guidance
2. Cervical screening: programme and colposcopy management
   • 14 March 2016
   • Guidance
3. Cervical screening: call and recall administration best practice
   • 10 April 2017
   • Guidance
4. Cancer screening: informed consent
   • 14 December 2018
   • Guidance
5. Cervical screening: removing women from routine invitations
   • 20 September 2019
   • Guidance
6. Cervical screening: cytopathology standards and evaluation criteria
   • 1 January 2013
   • Guidance
7. Cervical screening: cytology reporting failsafe
   • 17 July 2019
   • Guidance
8. Cervical screening: programme specific operating model
   • 9 August 2017
   • Guidance

Audit

The NHS CSP Audit of Invasive Cervical Cancers is available from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine website. The site includes the most recent audit, plus older versions.

1. Cervical screening: auditing procedures
   • 1 December 2006
   • Guidance
2. Cervical screening: audit coding guide
   • 1 March 2013
   • Guidance

Laboratory standards and quality assurance

A practical bench aid for use by lab staff reporting histological specimens taken after abnormal cytological or colposcopic results is available in CD format from Harlow Printing Limited.

1. Cervical screening: acceptable HPV tests
   • 18 June 2019
   • Guidance
2. Cervical screening: laboratory testing for human papillomavirus
   • 25 July 2019
   • Guidance
3. Cervical screening: cytology samples external quality assessment
   • 31 August 2016
   • Guidance
4. Cervical screening: gynaecological cytopathology EQA
   • 5 July 2019
   • Guidance
5. Cervical screening: histopathology reporting handbook
   • 1 September 2012
   • Guidance
6. Cervical screening: cytology improvement guide
   • 1 January 2009
   • Guidance
7. Cervical screening: laboratory organisation
   • 1 January 2003
   • Guidance
8. Cervical screening: BD FocalPoint Slide Profiler
   • 1 May 2013
   • Guidance
9. Cervical screening: ergonomic working standards
   • 1 September 2003
   • Guidance
10. Cervical screening: accepting samples in laboratories
    • 3 April 2017
    • Guidance

Colposcopy equipment reports

1. Cervical screening: dynamic spectral imaging system (DySIS)
   • 1 October 2012
   • Guidance
2. Cervical screening: electrical safety for electrosurgery procedures
   • 1 December 2004
   • Guidance

Primary care

Cervix chart for sample takers

A chart available on a one per room basis, for nurses and GPs taking cervical screening samples. Order here (electronic copy not available).

1. Cervical screening: cervical sample taker training
   • 14 December 2016
   • Guidance
2. Abnormal vaginal bleeding in women under 25: clinical assessment
   • 1 March 2010
   • Guidance
3. Cervical screening: supporting women with learning disabilities
   • 23 April 2019
   • Guidance

Primary human papillomavirus (HPV) screening

Primary HPV screening is currently being implemented across the NHS Cervical Screening Programme.

Professionals involved in delivering primary HPV screening should use these guidance documents.

1. Cervical screening: laboratory HPV testing and cytology services
   • 20 September 2019
   • Guidance
2. Cervical screening: pathway for acceptance of new HPV tests
   • 5 July 2019
   • Guidance
3. Cervical screening: primary HPV screening implementation
   • 22 February 2019
   • Guidance
4. Cervical screening: cytology reporting failsafe
   • 17 July 2019
   • Guidance

Published 1 February 2004
Last updated 20 September 2019 + show all updates

1. 20 September 2019 Added Cervical screening: laboratory HPV testing and cytology services document.
2. 5 July 2019 Added 'Cervical screening: pathway for acceptance of new HPV tests'.
3. 6 February 2019 Added new guidance on primary HPV screening implementation.
4. 16 April 2018 Added new guidance: the role of the cervical screening provider lead.
5. 10 October 2017 Added supporting women with learning disabilities guidance to primary care section.
6. 9 August 2017 Added programme specific operating model.
7. 14 December 2016 Added Cervical screening: cervical sample taker training.
8. 31 August 2016 Added National external quality assessment (EQA) scheme for the preparation and staining of cervical liquid based cytology samples: scheme protocol.
9. 16 May 2016 Added Cervical screening: training to use a new cytology system.
10. 23 March 2016 Added Cervical screening: gynaecological cytopathology external quality assessment to the collection.
11. 1 February 2004 First published.