All women due for CervicalCheck screening this year will get invite by March 2021

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The National Screening Service (NSS) has confirmed “all” women due for CervicalCheck screening this year will be issued an invite by March next year.

The HSE-run cancer screening service could not provide any figures on the backlog facing the CervicalCheck programme, but confirmed that the service has now issued invites to women who were due for screening between January and July of this year.