Nurses given no formal guidance on smear-test crisis

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), whose annual delegate conference begins in Cork today, said members are in the invidious position of trying to encourage women to go for screening, while at the same time unable to reassure them the programme works.
“This situation is really difficult for our members, who have worked very hard to increase the numbers going for screening,” said general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha.