Women 'can't trust CervicalCheck until slides are tested in this country'

A 2019 report compiled by Dr Gabriel Scally in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal recommended that analysis of smear tests be carried out in Ireland in a new National Cervical Screening Laboratory. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Women cannot trust the CervicalCheck screening programme until the testing of slides is carried out in this country, survivors and campaigners have said.

Arising from Dr Gabriel Scally’s 2018 report in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal, the Department of Health decided to develop the National Cervical Screening Laboratory in Ireland in conjunction with Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in Dublin.