Guidance

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.

From:
Public Health England
Published
31 January 2019
Last updated
22 February 2019 — See all updates

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Cervical screening: implementation guide for primary HPV screening

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Appendix 1: cervical screening protocol

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Appendix 2: cervical screening colposcopy management recommendations

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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
Published 31 January 2019
Last updated 22 February 2019 + show all updates

  1. 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.

  2. First published.

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