23 Nisan 2014 Çarşamba

Amount of overdue smear tests climbs 11%, figures show

Smear tests

The quantity of females overdue for smear exams was really worrying, the shadow wellness minister Liz Kendall said. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA




New figures reveal an 11% rise in the amount of females whose smear test is overdue. Close to three.7 million had been late with their check out-ups in 2012-13 – 364,000 a lot more than in 2009-10. The greatest increases were among functioning-age women, data from the Well being and Social Care Details Centre displays.


Far more than a million females in their 30s were overdue, up 11%, whilst for people in their 40s the rise was 15%, to 925,000, and for people in their 50s it was 16%, to 620,000.


The shadow health minister, Liz Kendall, mentioned it was extremely worrying. She extra: “It’s vital to increase public awareness and make it simpler for women to book their tests, such as outdoors normal functioning hrs since it can be difficult acquiring to your neighborhood surgery if you’re working.”




Amount of overdue smear tests climbs 11%, figures show

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