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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ella Pickover

Women ‘should not be erased’ from NHS guidance – Streeting

NHS.uk says cervical screening is offered to ‘women and people with a cervix’ (PA) - (PA Wire)

NHS documents “have to speak plain English”, the Health Secretary said as he stressed that women should not be “excluded or erased” for the NHS to be “trans inclusive”.

Wes Streeting said he does not support language such as “cervical smear tests being advertised just to people with cervixes”.

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