Minister aims to have backlog of 40,000 smear tests cleared within two months
Health Minister Simon Harris has pledged that a backlog of approximately 40,000 smear tests will be cleared by mid-September.
His promise came s yet another controversy engulfed the national screening service after it emerged that 800 women were affected by delays in issuing cervical screening results on foot of an IT glitch at the US laboratory processing the tests.
