Here are all the key facts. More than 31,000 women and people with cervixes in London are being offered at-home DIY smear test kits on the NHS for the first time, in a move experts hope will boost ...

As at-home DIY smear test kits become available to a select-group of women under a London pilot-scheme this month, there’s hope on the horizon for anyone who finds cervical screening a difficult ...

The kits are like a Covid swab but longer and are ... Women are invited for cervical-cancer screening – what used to be known as the smear test – every three to five years between the ages ...

The government wants to rebrand smear tests as "cervical screening" because fewer women are going for the test. The screening is basically a health check for the cervix. But there's no doubt it ...

Women are invited by the NHS for their first smear test at the age of 25 and then have one every three years, dropping to one every five years between 50 and 64. But one in three miss their ...

London has screened fewer women for cervical cancer than any other region in England for three years in a row, according to ...