Strategies to promote cervical screening for an aging demographic: a global insight
Mitchell, C. and Carlin, A. (2025) Strategies to promote cervical screening for an aging demographic: a global insight. Practice Nursing, 36 (1). pp. 8-11. ISSN 0964-9271
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Abstract
Claire Mitchell and Alexandra Carlin use studies from around the world to explain how cervical screening can be boosted, and the role primary care nurses can play in doing so. Cervical screening coverage, in the United Kingdom (UK), has been steadily declining year-on-year. Concurrently, the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination schedule excluded women born before 1990, therefore there is growing need to promote screening to those who were ineligible. Local data may help inform practices to identify non-attenders and allow development of targeted strategies to improve screening attendance with aim to meet the national target of 80%. NHS England aims to eradicate cervical cancer by 2040, however, much remains to be done to achieve this goal. Innovations such as self-sampling may be a vital tool to promote screening. This article will explore global targets, and the lessons learnt from countries with higher success rates, than the UK, in eradicating cervical cancer.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Practice Nursin, copyright © MA Healthcare, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.12968/pnur.2025.36.1.8. |
| Keywords: | Screening, Health promotion, speculum, detection, cervical screening, practice nursing. |
| Divisions: | School of Social Science |
| Depositing User: | Alexandra Carlin |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2026 10:13 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2026 10:14 |
| URI: | https://lbro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1281 |
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