Guidance: Cervical screening: pathway for acceptance of new HPV tests

Nhs England

September 26

15:16 2024

This document sets out:

the pathway for accepting new human papillomavirus tests for cervical screening
the application process for commercial providers (Appendix A)
a checklist for commercial providers submitting information to support their application (Appendix B)

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

Published 5 July 2019
Last updated 26 September 2024 +show all updates

26 September 2024
Added clarification that publication was originally published by Public Health England.
20 February 2024
Added the 7. Verification of a new pre-analytic system in the 'Cervical screening: pathway for acceptance of new human papillomavirus tests' document
2 November 2020
Added acceptance criteria and elaborated on stress test and validation report in section 3 in pathways and minor corrections in appendix A and B.
5 July 2019
First published.