Is anyone interested in promoting Jo's Trust Cervical Screening Awards?
They’ve just opened, are free to enter and are looking for excellence or innovation in local screening campaigns: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/get-involved/cervical-screening-awards
Information for Health Care Professionals New information was launched last month which includes best practice, information and support for patients and a details on useful links.
We have sections for Practice nurses and GPs on best practice for smear taking: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/information-healthcare-professionals/information-practice-nurses-and-gps.
Sections for colposcopists: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/information-colposcopists and coming soon information for secondary care oncology
Your guide to cervical screening (smear test) film: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/yourguide One of our newest films produced in collaboration with women and experts it provides essential information on screening and it’s link to preventing cervical cancer. It features custom animation and real women to help women with low health literacy to make decisions about screening attendance. The film has been translated into 8 different languages: Arabic, Bengali (Standard and Sylheti), Chinese Mandarin, Hindi, Polish, Tamil and Urdu.
You can view them here: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/video-page (click ‘Screening - other language films’).
They are also available on YouTube A DVD will be available to order from mid July at a minimal cost of £5 – containing all 8 films plus the English version (subtitled and without). Order here: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/video-page/dvd-order-form-your-guide-cervical-screening-smear-test
We have 3 short films that have been made for use on social media: · What is a smear test?
Smear tests: the facts
The barriers to cervical screening attendance (short clip):
We have a dedicated page where we publish all of our research into barriers of screening attendance: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/about-us/our-research
Launching later this year this campaign calls on British businesses to publicly commit to flexible working patterns to enable female employees, who cannot make their cervical screening (smear test) outside of working hours, the time to attend this potentially life-saving test, more details here: https://www.jostrust.org.uk/get-involved/campaign/time-test