To book a free NHS smear test, call your GP. Alternatively, you can book a private smear test. Many of our hospitals offer smear tests and we also offer them as part of our 360+, 360 and Female Health Assessment. How to prepare for a smear test It’s best to book your smear tes...
To book a free NHS smear test, call your GP. Alternatively, you can book a private smear test. Many of our hospitals offer smear tests and we also offer them as part of our 360+, 360 and Female Health Assessment. How to prepare for a smear test It’s best to book your smear tes...
You can have a smear test on any day that you’re not having your period. Aim for the second half of your cycle (the 2 weeks before your next period is due) if you can. Don't worry if you can't get an appointment at the "ideal" time, the smear can still be taken, if you...
The HPV vaccine is an effective way to protect you against high risk strains of HPV and was first licensed in 2006. The vaccine is offered to boys and girls aged 12-13 as part of the National Immunisation Programme. It is also offered on the NHS to females who didn’t receive the vacc...
The benefits of going for a smear test are being highlighted in a campaign aimed at the third of young Forth Valley women who are missing out. Women ignore test call Smear tests are offered ever three years by the NHS from the age of 25 but Claire believes it should start earlier at 18...
PAP testEARLY detection of cancerNATIONAL health servicesINDUSTRIAL hygieneThe article presents an appeal from Claire Carr, lead nurse calposcopist at Shrewsbury and Telfor Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust in Shropshire, England, to NHS employers to roll out cervical smear test...
The NHS recommends that you get a smear test every three years from age 25-49, every five years from 50-64, and after the age of 65 only if 1 of 3 of your tests showed abnormal results. I’ve actually had two already and I’m only 27, because I had a test done for a video ...
An overwhelming 99.7% cases of cervical cancer are caused by the sexually-transmitted HPV virus, and a vaccine is available for it under the NHS for all UK females between the ages of 12 and 18. It is so avoidable—and yet the number of annual diagnoses is increasing. Without ...
after a long wait, as it is seen as non-urgent. The NHS doesn’t have the funding to cater for the growing numbers of trans and non-binary people seeking medical intervention, hell, they don’t even have the funding to properly train GPs on how to talk to and treat a trans person....
test. I’m guessing if you’re reading this right now then you’ve been alerted to abnormal changes yourself and are panicking and crying as much as I was, so I’m going to break down the information from the NHS booklets now so that you can see their advice and relax a bit until ...