Women ‘can have confidence’ in screening

Women can have confidence in the national cervical screening programme, the Department of Health’s chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, has said.

Dr Holohan said he and other clinical experts were very grateful to Vicky Phelan who put the circumstances of her case in the public domain to highlight the issues they now had an opportunity to address.

However, they were aware that there were “substantial issues” of concern and wanted to assure women that they could have confidence in CervicalCheck.