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Bolton mum taking the fight for accessible cervical screenings to parliament

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CERVICAL screenings hit the headlines this year after the number of women participating dropped to the lowest in two decades as one in four failed to take up the test.
However, disabled women say that they are prevented from even having screenings, despite requesting to be checked.
Muscular Dystrophy UK campaigner Fiona Anderson, from Heaton, says she has never been able to have a cervical cancer screening.
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Thanks for sharing this with us @Richard_Scope
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This reminds me of the guest post by Beth (@mermaid_blogs) a few months back, where she mentioned how inaccessible smear tests can be.
There's not enough uptake on cervical screening as it is, without tests being inaccessible to those actually trying to have them done.
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