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Guidance

Cervical screening: removing people from routine invitations

How programme staff can stop invitations to people who do not require cervical screening.

Applies to England

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Healthcare professionals should use this process to stop invitation letters being sent to women who no longer require cervical screening for medical reasons or personal choice.

Updates to this page

Published 1 February 2004
Last updated 25 August 2026 Show all updates
  1. Updated to reflect new HPV sample taker training guidance

  2. Rewording of sentence in section 2.2 to reflect extension of screening interval to 5 years.

  3. Clarified that this guidance is for the NHS in England. Removed references to PHE and PHE gateway reference number. Colposcopy discharge updates.

  4. In the details, changed 'originally published by Public Health England' to 'previously published by Public Health England'.

  5. Added clarification that publication was originally published by Public Health England.

  6. Guidance document revised and updated.

  7. First published.

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