Members' Business: Cervical Screening Uptake Statistics

That the Parliament notes the latest cervical screening uptake statistics, released in September 2018, which show that uptake is falling, with more than one in four women not taking up their invitation; understands that cervical screening is the best protection against cervical cancer and that falling screening attendance means that there will be more diagnoses that could have been prevented; commends the preventative work of the HPV Immunisation Programme in Scotland, which it understands has seen high uptakes of the HPV vaccine among S1 to S3 girls since 2008; supports Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, which runs from 21 to 27 January 2019, and notes calls for more to be done to remove barriers to screening and to make it easily accessible in the Central Scotland region and across the country.