1,500 practitioners join free smear test network

ALMOST 1,500 family doctors and practice nurses have signed up as smear-takers for the free national cervical cancer screening service available to women since yesterday.

A preliminary list of registered practitioners was published on the service website, cervicalcheck.ie, last night and it is to be updated continuously as additions are confirmed.

The ultimate aim of having every one of the country’s 2,500 GPs on board looks set to be achieved before long.