- Conference
- 2010 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 14 October 2009
- Decision
- Carried
Conference welcomes the recent changes to the frequency of smear testing from five years to every three years. However, this still is not frequent enough as women’s lives are still endangered. The legal age of consent is sixteen and this should be the age that smear tests commence. With the increase in the number of cases of Chlamydia this again highlights the necessity for increased smear testing. Government advertising campaigns have not affected the increase in sexually transmitted diseases. Action to safeguard the health of women is urgently needed.
This Conference calls on the National Women’s Committee to raise lowering the age for smear testing to sixteen and liaise with UNISON’s Labour Link to improve health equality for women.