Cervical screening: The Facts

English (PDF 721Kb)
Revised 2007

Large Print Version
The Facts (In Other Languages)

This leaflet is also available in a British Sign Language DVD and in an audio CD set.

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.

Copies of the English leaflet can be obtained free of charge from the Department of Health publication orderline: Telephone: 0300 123 1002, Textphone: 0300 123 1003, Fax: 01623 724 524, Email orders: [email protected] or order directly from the Department of Health Publications Orderline website.

Translations of the leaflet are available as downloads only (see list above). A Braille version of 'Cervical Screening - THE FACTS and an audio tape in English are available from these contact details.