{"id":773507,"date":"2026-09-17T10:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773507\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:20:13","slug":"nhs-urges-young-women-with-cervical-cancer-jab-to-get-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773507\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS urges young women with cervical cancer jab to get screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shropshire&#8217;s uptake is better than the national average, but still short of the target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin is trying to encourage people who don&#8217;t go to their appointments, by developing a series of educational videos aimed at people &#8220;who might find it really difficult&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know that a lot of people are really nervous,&#8221; Whatley explained, noting that many feel the screening &#8220;is really invasive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The videos &#8220;walk them through the steps so they know exactly what to expect when they arrive at the GP surgery,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are other factors that could stop people from coming to their cervical screening appointments, Whatley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Shropshire has got some hugely rural areas, and so [travel] will be a challenge to some people,&#8221; she explained, adding that fitting in a GP appointment around work or caring responsibilities can also make it difficult. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In August, the NHS announced that women who missed a cervical screening appointment in England will be offered HPV self-testing kits by the NHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the next year, nearly four million will receive invites on the NHS App or via text message, email or letter to order a free kit to use at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shropshire&#8217;s uptake is better than the national average, but still short of the target. NHS Shropshire, Telford and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}