Woman forced to wait seven months for smear test results

A WOMAN with a family history of cervical cancer was forced to wait seven months for the result of a smear test, even though the findings were sitting in Holles Street Hospital for five months.

The woman was sent to the National Maternity Hospital last February for the test. The test was carried out, but she did not find out the results until last week when she rang the hospital’s complaints office.

On receiving her smear test results, which turned out to be negative for the cancer, she was told that the test had been returned to the hospital in late April — more than two months after the test.