Integrating practice and clinical re-call systems with CervicalCheck

Practices and clinics that have operated their own cervical screening re-call systems for women can integrate these systems within the CervicalCheck national re-call process with the following steps:

• Identify and communicate with those women that are due for practice or clinic re-call      
• Advise (or assist) those women that have not yet had a CervicalCheck smear test to check that they are on the CervicalCheck register (how to do this is described below)
• Advise those women to answer ‘No’ to the registration question ‘Have you had a smear test within the last three years?’ so they will be issued with an early CervicalCheck letter of invitation
• Advise those women to make a cervical screening appointment upon receipt of their letter of invitation
 

A woman may register or update her details with CervicalCheck by: 

•         Completing the online self registration form at www.cervicalcheck.ie 
                       or
•          Completing the printed Self-registration form Freepost, available from Inform Systems Telephone: 061 338580
                     or
•          Telephoning CervicalCheck (Freephone 1800 45 45 55)

Once a woman has had her first CervicalCheck smear test, CervicalCheck will issue a letter to advise the woman that her result is available from her smeartaker and when her next smear test is due. The due date of a woman’s next smear test is based upon the management recommendation accompanying the cytology result.

Using the above steps, women who are due for practice or clinic re-call and that have not yet had a CervicalCheck smear test will be able to attend for a free smear test. This will be on foot of a CervicalCheck letter of invitation at a time consistent with the practice or clinic re-call interval.

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