Phelan: No capacity to resolve screening delays

Campaigner Vicky Phelan has hit out at lengthy delays in the cervical screening process as “unacceptable”.

Speaking one year after settling her case for €2.5m against the US laboratory over the alleged misreading of her cervical cancer smear, the campaigner said the decision by Health Minister Simon Harris to offer free repeat tests to women was correct but that it should have been backed with the proper resources.