GPs warned HSE of strain on smear test checks five months before scandal broke, says TD

GPs warned the HSE chronic backlogs in cervical cancer smear tests were putting the quality and accuracy of the checks at risk five months before the scandal was publicly revealed.

Fianna Fáil TD Lisa Chambers has demanded answers over why the concern was not made known sooner after saying a GP group wrote to the HSE's national screening service raising the concerns last summer.