Assuring the Quality and Measuring the Effectiveness of Cervical Screening

ISBN 1 872263 75 5 - published 1994

The objectives of this document are to:

• differentiate between the quality and the effectiveness of cervical screening
• summarise the criteria that have been developed to measure the effectiveness of the programme
• summarise the basic principles of quality assurance
• discuss how these principles may be applied to cervical screening
• propose standards for the NHS Cervical Screening Programme
• propose a national system for quality assurance
• identify the further work that has to be done

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