GLASGOW'S cervical screening attendance has fallen behind other countries in the UK.

Data has revealed that our city is not only one of the lowest attended areas in Scotland but is also failing to meet numbers elsewhere.

As previously revealed in the Glasgow Times as part of the Don't Fear the Smear campaign, health board figures revealed only 65% of eligible people - which is typically those aged 25 to 64 - took up their routine smear test offer up to March 2021, the most recently available data.

However, in the same period 70.2% of women and people with cervixes attended throughout the whole of England.

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Public Health England also revealed more up-to-date figures which revealed a drop of 0.3% in attendance, with only 69.9% of women adequately screened up to March 2022.

It did, however, increase the number of tests carried out between 2021 and 2022 by 15.5% from 3.03 million to 3.5m.

It comes after Public Health England launched its first national cervical screening campaign, Be Clear on Cancer.

Similarly, Wales revealed its stats for the same period were much in line with England - with 69.5% of eligible individuals attending their exam up to March 2021.

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Health boards in the nation reported a range of between 67.7% and 72.7% uptake throughout the year.

Northern Ireland's Public Health Agency also confirmed around 70% uptake in the country.

The country has also praised its screening programme for reducing cervical cancer from the fourth most common form of the disease globally to the 12th most common in Northern Ireland. It remains the most common form for women under 35 in Scotland.

Both the Scottish Government and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have insisted they're committed to increasing uptake.