Revised November 2009
Designed to ensure that women are told what screening can and cannot achieve, the leaflet includes an explanation about false positive and false negative results, and addresses the need to inform patients about the use made of personal information for audit, as set out in the General Medical Council guidance on confidentiality.
This means that women should be able to make a genuinely informed choice based on an understanding about why they are attending for screening, and what happens to their records after being screened. The information will be sent to all women in England with their invitation for cervical screening.
Available in other formats
Large print version in English
The facts (In Other Languages)
British Sign Language DVD
Audio CD set (languages include English, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Polish, Punjabi and Urdu).
A Braille version is also available.
- NHSCSP home page
- Programme publications
- About cervical screening
- More information about the
screening programme- Information about cervical cancer
- Diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposed women
- Liquid Based Cytology (LBC)
- LBC implementation guidance
- Who does what in the programme
- Quality Assurance and Training
- Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001
- Cervical cytology training centres
- Human Papilloma virus (HPV)
- HPV Sentinel Sites implementation project
- HMR101 Request/Report Form
- Cytology improvement guide - 14 day turnaround time
- Research in cervical screening
- Frequently asked questions
- Programme statistics
- Programme news index
- Useful links