Latest: Minister sends in medical team and launches helpline as CervicalCheck admit 'we could have done better'

Latest: The clinical director of CervicalCheck has today admitted that they could have done a better job of informing women about abnormalities in their smear tests.

Update 7.15pm: The clinical director of CervicalCheck has today admitted that they could have done a better job of informing women about abnormalities in their smear tests.

A total of 206 women who developed cancer were wrongly given the all-clear, which was only discovered when their tests were reexamined after they were diagnosed.