Four-week wait for smear test results
In January, the assistant national director of the HSE’s National Hospital Office Tom Finn, described the decision to send cervical smears to the US as “an appropriate solution to an unacceptable problem”.
When the move was made to clear a backlog of tens of thousands of cervical smears, the average time for a test to be analysed was four months. However, some women were having to wait up to nine months for a test result.
