1.2million women a year miss cervical cancer screening Nearly a third of women ignored invitations to have a smear test for cancer last year, official statistics reveal.
Uptake of the English cervical screening programme is at its lowest level for 20 years, with more than 1.2million women aged 25 to 64 failing to turn up in 2016/17.
Health bosses last night urged GPs to provide more morning and evening screening appointments, in a bid to make it as easy as possible for busy women to attend.
Just 72 per cent of invited women were tested last year, down from 75.7 per cent in 2011.
And among the youngest group of 25 to 29-year-olds, just 62.1 per cent attended, according to the NHS Digital statistics. The Daily Mail
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Uptake of the English cervical screening programme is at its lowest level for 20 years, with more than 1.2million women aged 25 to 64 failing to turn up in 2016/17.
Health bosses last night urged GPs to provide more morning and evening screening appointments, in a bid to make it as easy as possible for busy women to attend.
Just 72 per cent of invited women were tested last year, down from 75.7 per cent in 2011.
And among the youngest group of 25 to 29-year-olds, just 62.1 per cent attended, according to the NHS Digital statistics. The Daily Mail
See also:
- Report shows decrease in cervical screening coverage in England NHS Digital
- Call for women to get life-saving smear test after uptake drops Public Health England
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