Fears over Manchester lab in 90,000 cervical checks

An unaccredited Manchester laboratory that screened more than 90,000 smears without the knowledge or approval of CervicalCheck should be the focus of an ongoing expert review of the screening history of women with cervical cancer, patient representatives have said.

The laboratory in Salford has since been granted retrospective accreditation by the Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB), covering periods when the board did not even know that the facility was operational.