Thousands of women in Lincolnshire who have not attended cervical screening appointments will be offered a home HPV testing kit as part of a national scheme.<\/p>\n
The NHS said it was providing self-testing kits to encourage women to take part in screening to detect human papillomavirus (HPV), which can increase the risk of cervical cancer.<\/p>\n
Dr Dave Briggs from NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) said 73% of eligible women were up to date with their cervical screening in the county, which was below the national target.<\/p>\n
Women who are eligible will receive invitations via the NHS App, text message, email or letter, and can order a free kit through the NHS App or an NHS online account.<\/p>\n
The health authority said data from March 2024 showed that approximately 53,000 eligible women in Lincolnshire were not up to date with cervical screening.<\/p>\n
The tests help prevent cervical cancer by checking for high-risk types of HPV, a common virus that can cause changes to cells in the cervix, which can usually be treated before cancer develops.<\/p>\n
The self-testing kits contain a swab for collecting a sample that is then posted back free of charge for analysis.<\/p>\n
If high-risk HPV is found, women will be contacted to book a follow-up cervical screening appointment at their GP practice.<\/p>\n
A clinician would then take another sample to check for any changes to cells. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of women in Lincolnshire who have not attended cervical screening appointments will be offered a home HPV…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777698","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\/777698","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=777698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}