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This guidance covers:

• the pathway for primary hrHPV screening
• the refinement of sample adequacy using findings from the Health Technology Assessment study
• information on what to include in the HPV-U reporting category
• call and recall codes for primary hrHPV screening
• the role and responsibilities for service leads
• advice for managers on laboratory organisation

It replaces:

• Achievable standards, benchmarks for reporting and criteria for evaluating cervical cytopathology (2013), once a laboratory has implemented testing for high risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV)
• Laboratory organisation: a guide for laboratories participating in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme (2003)

This publication was originally published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.