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For many women, finding the time to attend a cervical screening appointment can be difficult. Others may feel anxious, embarrassed, or worried about the procedure. Now, a new NHS initiative is aiming to remove some of those barriers by offering eligible women the opportunity to complete an HPV test from the privacy and comfort of their own home. The NHS has begun rolling out free home HPV self-testing kits to women aged 30 to 65 who have not attended cervical screening after

When your NHS bowel cancer screening kit arrives through the post, it's tempting to put it aside and tell yourself you'll get to it later. For many people in their 50s, "later" often turns into never. New NHS data shows that people aged 50 to 59 are much less likely to complete their bowel cancer screening test than older age groups. Just over half of 54-year-olds took part in screening between April 2024 and March 2025, compared with nearly three-quarters of people aged 70 t