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<p>The North Yorkshire and York Health Improvement Plan includes halting the decline
in cervical screening coverage by delivering additional training to general practice
staff; working with the clinical commissioning group engagement agents and plans to
enlist volunteer cancer champions to attend community events and work with local businesses
to promote cervical screening.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE), the Department
and NHS England continue to work together to understand and redress the falling participation
in the National Health Service cervical screening programme. A range of work is being
undertaken by PHE to understand the reasons for the decline in uptake and to support
the NHS and local authorities (LAs) to address them. They include access to timely
and useful data for benchmarking, evidence on best practices to increase uptake among
women who wish to be screened, using governance levers to advice NHS and LAs and working
in partnership with commissioners, providers and charities.</p>
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