The Cervical Screening Administrative Service (CSAS) will be contacting GP practices over a three week period from 18 August 2021 to request action to support the NHS Cervical Screening Programme National Ceasing Audit, to ensure that no individuals have been inappropriately ceased from the programme. Practices will receive a list of their register patients who are recorded on the national cervical screening call and recall IT system since 1 April 2010 as:
- having no cervix and;
- have no record that a ceasing notification letter was sent to them when they were originally ceased.
Practices will be asked to review these patients’ records to confirm whether they have a cervix. An average practice will need to review 10 records. We are currently engaging with the BMA GP Committee with regards to making a one-off contribution payment in recognition of the workload impact of this request.
We appreciate how extremely busy you are at this time, but if you receive a request from CSAS please ensure that you respond by the date requested. If no response is received, all patients identified will be reinstated into the NHS Cervical Screening Programme.