Claim: A new trial would allow over 31,000 women to perform their own smear tests.
Fact-check: HPV testing kits are not smear tests - Full Fact
Verdict: it is near impossible to perform your own smear test. this is referring to a self swab to test for human papilloma virus . the two tests are not the same thing.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Daniella De Block Golding
Date published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00